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Thursday 19 May 2016

Copyright Problems

I haven't been adding to this blog as I had hoped because I'm concerned over a nasty little problem that has cropped up with my material on HubPages.  Whole pages have been copied, machine translated (at least partly) into Spanish and pasted onto another site.  Since this site has posted none of the data required to make a Copyright Infringement claim, I (and all the others whose work has been stolen) can't do anything about it unless the offending site starts selling advertising space, in which case we can inform the advertiser they are helping plagiarists to profit.  Naturally this has made me hesitant to publish any of my new patterns until I am confident that nobody is going to be able to do the same with them and benefit from my work without so much as a thanks or an acknowledgement.  Even if I don't charge for my patterns I don't want to see them stolen and slapped onto a botched up site like this.  Sorry, but hopefully I will be able to find somewhere I can post my work that is a bit more secure, and link to it on this blog.