User talk:Jack Phoenix

Hi Jack,

I was going to remove it myself (as an IP professional (Patent Attorney) on the point of retiring I should be able to spell "plagiarism") - so no problem with that. What was particularly annoying about this was that Geni.com didn't bother to do anything at all when I properly notified them of the quite blatant copyright infringement (before my recent illness I did this for a living, so I know how to do it right). So I then contacted their user directly, who whined a lot, but did remove the infringement from Geni.com.

Unfortunately, this is not the only instance I've had of material being re-used wholesale by others without any request or reference. As one possible future plan (if my health improves further) is to move from your "free" service to your paid-for hosting service - with some Chester-focussed advertising (and the profits to charity - our UK "Coastguard"), I needed to put a stop to it and didn't want to go down the 17USC501 route against a pivate individual. They only way to contact her was via her "talk" page on Geni.com - she didn't like that either!

I don't mind people re-using my content for Wikipedia (with a suitable reference), but wholesale copying of text and images onto a commercial site isn't on, especially when someone tries to pass it off as their own work - and will land the commercial site in very hot water.

So thanks for attending to this and keep-up the good work at your end too!

Regards

Peter