View Full Version : THEY USED MY REVIEW! >:o
Chris
07-11-2005, 03:48 PM
MY REVIEW! (http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=43633&item=4745634253&rd=1)
"Legendary for her looks, attitude and amazing talents...."
I wrote this review for amazon.com, and they took it, without even asking me first!
Isn't this illegal?
Craig
07-11-2005, 03:55 PM
I'd be flattered.
nik0tine
07-11-2005, 04:04 PM
Yeah, I'd assume it's some kind of illegal.
Peegee
07-11-2005, 04:08 PM
You wrote it for amazon, who now owns it now ;p
So it's up to them to bitch and moan
Chris
07-11-2005, 04:08 PM
I'm a little flattered, but they could have mailed me first. :/
edczxcvbnm
07-11-2005, 04:08 PM
Yes it is illegal. It is call plagerism(spelling?). Write to e-bay about this acution and make them change the content as you are the originator of the review.
Chris
07-11-2005, 04:11 PM
I did write 'em, alas, no answer. >_<
They're more than welcome to use my reviews, just list as the originator.
Optium
07-11-2005, 04:26 PM
lol. Who gives a <img src="/xxx.gif"><img src="/xxx.gif"><img src="/xxx.gif"><img src="/xxx.gif">?
If everyone on ebay were forced to give credit to the site where they get
their information, it'd just be annoying as hell. They don't even need to
give you credit for that review, they could just as easily give it to
Amazon.
Anyway, how many people do you think are going to read that anyway?
More now since you posted it, but even now the view counter is at 18,
one is mine and I'm willing to bet about 3-7 of them are yours, 4 other
people have replied here and I'm sure the seller has looked at the item
a few times, so it's like 5 people who have seen it in the 5 days that it's
been listed.
.opt
Chris
07-11-2005, 04:29 PM
Meanie. :cry:
Madame Adequate
07-11-2005, 04:33 PM
lol. Who gives a <img src="/xxx.gif"><img src="/xxx.gif"><img src="/xxx.gif"><img src="/xxx.gif">?
If everyone on ebay were forced to give credit to the site where they get
their information, it'd just be annoying as hell. They don't even need to
give you credit for that review, they could just as easily give it to
Amazon.
Anyway, how many people do you think are going to read that anyway?
More now since you posted it, but even now the view counter is at 18,
one is mine and I'm willing to bet about 3-7 of them are yours, 4 other
people have replied here and I'm sure the seller has looked at the item
a few times, so it's like 5 people who have seen it in the 5 days that it's
been listed.
.opt
Optium, you managed to miss the point a spectacular amount. Credit ought to be given where credit is due, whether it is one paragraph with an audience of three, or if it's a vast novel which is read by fifty million people. It has nothing to do with where the information came from (Though it'd still be polite to credit, it's not a legal requirement.), it's a verbatim reproduction of something Chris wrote.
It is indeed illegal not to credit the source of the work, whether it has to be Amazon or Chris here I don't know, but it definitely has to be credited. (Read the small print on Amazon. :( There's probably a clause which says 'Everything posted here belongs to us!' Even if that's so, I'd have thought they would still have to credit Amazon.)
Azure Chrysanthemum
07-11-2005, 04:51 PM
I agree with I'm my own MILF. If Chris wrote it it's his own intellectual proprety and by law must be credited to him if it is reproduced in verbatim. Unless there's some way Amazon gets around it, which I can't think of. I'm not the law expert here, Big D might know something more.
crashNUMBERS
07-11-2005, 04:54 PM
Hahaha!! I feel bad for ya' man. I think it is illegal...
Camanche
07-11-2005, 05:03 PM
Congratulations on getting your review used!
You still deserve credit though- no matter what. What if Rolling Stone decided to use your review and did not credit you? That’d be a pisser, no? Fact of the matter is, it is only proper to credit people. Every time I’ve read an Amazon review, credit was given where it was due. This should be no different, regardless if it is on a mass internet site. As someone said, they stole your ENTIRE piece of work, which is beyond plagiarism.
qazwsx1232
07-11-2005, 05:15 PM
tehee. thats cool
Zeldy
07-11-2005, 05:15 PM
Its a good thing?
But i see your point, they should have atleast told you.
crashNUMBERS
07-11-2005, 05:34 PM
You should be proud. If I made a review no one would even read it...
Yeah, no one even reads your posts, crash. :p
Anyways, I'd try pestering them through email or even calling them. It is rather ludicrous that they took your review without citing it, but unfortunately that is all too easy to get away with on the Internet. However, Amazon should try to set an example. I'm not much for moral crusades, but I mean, come on. :\
Like I said, I'd be flattered, but emailing them is the way to go, even if they don't believe you. It's not right of them to do.
Old Manus
07-11-2005, 07:53 PM
WALK INTO HQ WITH UZIS AND GUN THEM ALL DOWN WITH YOUR RAGE
Cloud No.9
07-11-2005, 08:09 PM
isn't just false advertising to claim she had talents or looks? and that's illegal too.
Optium
07-11-2005, 08:47 PM
Ahahahahaha...nice Cloud.
I'm not saying that what they did is legal or correct, what I'm saying is
that forcing everyone to give credit on ebay is rediculous. It doesn't
matter, nobody will really care and if anyone does they're crazy.
.opt
crashNUMBERS
07-11-2005, 08:53 PM
Yeah, no one even reads your posts, crash. :p
Anyways, I'd try pestering them through email or even calling them. It is rather ludicrous that they took your review without citing it, but unfortunately that is all too easy to get away with on the Internet. However, Amazon should try to set an example. I'm not much for moral crusades, but I mean, come on. :\
Thats where your wrong n. If so then why do people reply to it??
eestlinc
07-12-2005, 01:13 AM
what's funny is you actually caught them using it.
Are you sure your not bravedaveyboy?
Meat Puppet
07-12-2005, 04:32 AM
This is where you ask yourself: "What would Meat Puppet do in this situation?" I'd fly into the room with the answer: go nuts and kill people.
Hope this helps, buddy. :)
nik0tine
07-12-2005, 07:59 AM
Don't worry Meat Puppet. It should.
This is where you ask yourself: "What would Meat Puppet do in this situation?" I'd fly into the room with the answer: go nuts and kill people.
Hope this helps, buddy. :)
Can this also be used when the soda machine steals my money?
black orb
07-12-2005, 08:46 AM
>>> This happens a lot on ebay, it sucks..
Shlup
07-12-2005, 09:31 AM
You should seek professional help before date rape psychosis sets in.
Chris
07-12-2005, 12:55 PM
what's funny is you actually caught them using it.
I was looking at Grace Jones stuff. xD
Silmaril
07-12-2005, 01:00 PM
Congrats anyway. :)
Big D
07-12-2005, 01:02 PM
That eBay ad was undoubtedly posted by the person who's selling the CD; eBay's probably got a disclaimer going somewhere, so the seller's responsible. Or some such. You could try emailing him/her, asking for the source of your review to be mentioned. If you do, be sure to provide a link to your Amazon review, as well as some kind of evidence that you authored it.
You could re-try the same approach with eBay themselves, mentioning that one of their members is using your review without attribution.
Chris
07-12-2005, 01:13 PM
I still have the original review saved in Words. Anyways, I don't mind them using it, I would just like to have a little credit. :)
Optium
07-12-2005, 05:40 PM
You've got it. More people have looked at that CD since they saw this
post and all of them realize that it's yours. Maybe that was your reason
for posting in the first place. You sly fox.
.opt
Chris
07-12-2005, 05:42 PM
GOD! YOU ARE SO MEAN. :cry:
Optium
07-12-2005, 05:44 PM
I thought my last post was pretty nice though. :o
.opt
blackchocobo9999
07-16-2005, 09:52 PM
If you didnt put copyright on it, then sorry, but they can take it and use it and it will not be illigal. But if you did but copyright on it and they did take it without permission, then you could get a huge some of money :D
Hope you put copyright on :greenking
Odaisé Gaelach
07-16-2005, 10:00 PM
I'm not completely sure on this, but if you write it then doesn't it automatically become your copyright?
As long as you can prove that you did write it, though.
blackchocobo9999
07-16-2005, 10:02 PM
Yes, thats why you have to put a copyright sign next to it, and i think you have to pay for it, im not sure..... :confused:
Odaisé Gaelach
07-16-2005, 10:07 PM
This is what it says under American copyright law, and I think that it's the same in many countries all over the world.
http://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ1.html#wccc
EDIT: And http://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ1.html#hsc
Optium
07-17-2005, 03:47 PM
Yes, thats why you have to put a copyright sign next to it, and i think you have to pay for it, im not sure..... :confused:
Or you could use the poor man's copyright. Send yourself a dated
package in the mail containing whatever it is that you wrote and never
open it, then if you need to go to court you can use that. Not quite as
good as a copyright, but not nearly as expensive.
.opt
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