SPLOG IS SPLOG

Notice: If you are reading this on any other site other than
"West in New England" at Blogger or my blog
on the "Maine Genealogy Network"  you are reading 
copyrighted material taken from my blog without my permission.

 Well, it's happened again. A commercial website is publishing material
taken from my and other geneabloggers' blogs. One of the unifying
moments in the geneablogging community was a similar incident a few
years back that brought us closer together. It's been necessary since
then for us to remain vigilant and to react immediately when we see
any geneablogger's writing used in such a fashion.

In this case Thomas MacEntee issued a "Splog Alert" over on his
Geneabloggers blog about the Rootsfeed.com site and told us how to
ask them to remove our intellectual property. Since then Rootsfeed.com
has added  a "Contact" function and I've just sent my request through
that. If that fails, I will move on to lodging complaints to the parties
Thomas suggests that we use.

Now, I'm not very good at explaining just how sploggers profit from
what they do, but luckily footnoteMaven is, so check out her post
about it over on her blog here. 


Finally, Thomas suggested in an update that we strengthen our
copyrights with stronger language. If you look to the right on my site
you'll see I've followed that suggestion.

I await a reply from Rootsfeed.com. Until then, I will run that disclaimer
you see in boldface at the top of this post.

UPDATE:

I just read an email from Rootsfeed.com:
 
"RootsFeed is not a Splog.

Your posts have been deleted"

I've removed their name from the disclaimer, but I think I'm going
to leave the rest there for now.