Mysteriousbritain's All About

I've just been surfing the net and was shocked to see just how many sites out there directly quote and link to Mysteriousbritain . Some sites have lifted our articles straight of our pages such as:

http://www.redicecreations.com/specialreports/2005/09sep/johndee.html (I don't mind as long as they say where the article is from).

We're even used as references on wikipedia . No wonder we're getting 3-6000 visitors a day with this much coverage.

I had never really taken any notice of our prescence on the web before. If anyone notices any interesting links or quotes on other sites stick a link up in a reply.

I too have found articles that have been lifted verbatim off the site. I mentioned one of them to Dan quite some time ago as all the haunted pubs appeared on Charles Walkers website with no mention of Mysterious Britain at all the cheeky B*$%*$d.

Absolutely outrageous Will keep my eyes peeled n will let u know if I find anything. Really bugs me when that happens.

As long as we get credit it's ok, it's when we don't it becomes a problem. Recently the picture Dan (DJP) drew of a dragon appeared on a halloween wrap for Visit Scotland that went in a national newspaper. That was a little annoying but would probably have cost too much to chase up legally. In the end it didn't do any harm I suppose.

Dan could have wrote them a letter or sent an email pointing out the fact that the image is his personal property and that no one had contacted him requesting permission to use it. He may have been offered some kind of compensation from them without the need of any official legal representation and seeing as he can proove that he drew the original there can be no argument really.

As for being credited for the info, people should link to the relavent page as Dan has done in certain articles not just scalp them. Makes you wonder how many of our Photos have been nicked by these underhanded web monkeys. If I find any of mine floating around, I for one won't be a happy little camper credited or not unless permission has been asked and approved.

Rant over

The site's content is certainly getting about. A lot of the forum topics have now been trawled by Googlebots and are appearing in search listings.

well i suppose it could be worse it could be here n no one could know about it..... )

Dan/Ian

I find a strongly worded letter works. I deal with this at work all the time, people pinching things off our website, although with our stuff no one tends to pinch it for profit making like newspapers. It's not too late to request royalties - a letter wouldn't cost anything and may come to something.

Thank Agricola. I think Dan has been working on a standard response letter we can use in future. I think Mysteriousbritain is gonna get tough.

At the end of the day you put in the work and it isn't really on to for someone else to profit from that.

Kick ass guys. Sometimes people do take things unintentionally, but then again it doesn't hurt to ask. As I say a strongly worded letter threatening the solicitors does work wonders.