Fairey Swordsman plans on E-Bay

[Dave MilbournParticipant @davemilbourn48782]

Item #370128690175

Just a note to advise anyone who might be interested in buying these that I hold the intellectual rights to the drawings. This person does not have my permission to sell copies of the plans, so he’s in breach of the copyright and I am in the process of advising E-Bay accordingly.

While I don’t regard this exactly as a major crime, I don’t see why he should profit from someone else’s work without even asking. Damned rude!

[Paul TParticipant @pault84577]

Hear Hear

I totally agree with your comments especially regarding copyright issues.

I realise that ebay has become nothing more than a world wide carboot sale but I think that their webmasters should do more to try and prevent items such as your plans being posted.

Paul

[Dave MilbournParticipant @davemilbourn48782]

E-bay make a lot of noise about protecting Intellectual Property Rights but, despite my having faxed them a formal notice (as required by their complicated procedure, and costing us to do so) and them having been notified several times since then about this ongoing breach, they have done nothing.

That’s Sweet Nothing with a capital F. Nil. Zero. Zilch. Nowt.

So in spite of their much-trumpeted VeRO program, that makes E-Bay guilty of a secondary infringement. Guess what? They seem to care about that almost as much as do the low-life who make money from other peoples’ work without their permission. Not a jot.

Don’t really know who’s worse, but I won’t be using FleeBay for any further transactions this side of Hades freezing over. Shysters and scumbags are welcome to them.

O yes – if anyone does want a copy of the plans then a PM to me will produce a legal set for a lot less than this pirate is selling them; the moral being that If you can’t beat them then saw their ******* legs off

[Bob Abell 2Participant @bobabell2]

Hello Dave

A very unsatisactory state of affairs!

What about finding a solicitor who operates  on ….."no win, no fee"….try Yellow pages?

You must have some protection somewhere by simply owning the copyright?

Best of luck……………..Bob

[Dave MilbournParticipant @davemilbourn48782]

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