As many of you know, I designed and built my own website and have built many card-related websites over the years. A few years back, for my own site, I had designed a larger graphic for my sites homepage that contained the images of several prewar players in kind of a "collage". The text on the collage read "Shammus' Prewar Cards". I had one person, who I believe is a board member still, steal this artwork, crudely airbrushed out the word "Shammus" and replace it with "Richard's" or something like that. He then proceeded to use my art on his own homepage as well as copied and pasted content directly off of my site and on to his own.
Stealing someones artwork in that manner is a little different since you're actually taking work the other person created and using it for your own purposes. Anyway, I wrote him a couple times, the first time politely, the second time not so politely and told him to quit stealing other's work and to take my art off his site which I believe he finally did.
Edit....I got curious and went out to look at his site. I just noticed the content he pasted from my site originally is still there. Jeez...
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