Classic British Flight Sim

Could I have an opinion on this please.
A short time ago I posted a Guardian af2s af2w model at flightsim.com. In the readme I asked that the files not be reposted without asking. Today I found it at http://www.fsplanet.com/ >. The files can not be down loaded for free and only paying members can down load the files. I don't like three things about this. Firstly the files were posted with out asking, second is the way it is posted makes it look like its a file they own. Lastly the person who runs that site is trying to profit from something that I made and posted in good faith for any one who wanted it as free ware.
Am I being over sensitive?

Cheers Marty

I do not think you are over-sensitive about this : it is straightforward breach of copyright and in the broadest terms the theft of your intellectual property. I should e mail fsplanet requiring them to remove the files immediately

They are a law unto themselves and do this all the time.

They do not take stuff down when asked and have no respect or regard for copyright.

Garry

I see they also posted another of my files as well. This is why I stopped posting some time ago and only just resumed, I think I will only email files from now on to members of reputable sites like this one and sim out house. I have emailed these people but from your comments I assume it wont make any difference. Thanks for the replies. Marty

Garry Smith has been waging war on that site and others for years.

http://www.gjsmith.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3

You just have to hope that people realise these files are available without paying for them and that fsplanet goes out of business. However it doesn't seem to happen.

As Garry Russell says, they just ignore any requests - there must be hundreds of vitriolic posts about fsplanet in various forums.

Ian

we also had a large war with them. we found our files there, and instructed them to remove them, which they refused. WE then began to make all our downloads incluide the statement

"this file may not be uploaded to any other site without permission, inc FSPLANET"

they then attempted to take legal action against UKMIL for that statment, claiming it was against the rights to host freeware, and that naming one site was targeting.

needless to say, i took up their challenge, and said go ahead, take me to court, and within a few days,all UKMIL files have been removed from FSPLANET and nothing else heard

Glad to hear that

I didn't realise you had success on this I remember it being discussed at the time.

Seem then that's the way to go about it.

Garry

"this file may not be uploaded to any other site without permission, inc FSPLANET"

I like it, that is exactly what I will do. Thank you

Maybe there should be an anti fs planet club.

Marty

AND if they come back and threaten you with lawyers - you can ask UKMIL for a copy of a certain letter

Leif

A couple of things.

Being the copyrite owner in itself does not necessarily allow control of distribution, without explicitly saying so. the words "Freeware, Limited Distribution" are key.

Always use the English word “Copyright”; by international convention, this is used worldwide, even for material in other languages. The copyright symbol “©” can be included if you wish (and your character set supports it), but it's not necessary. There is no legal significance to using the three-character sequence “(C)”, although it does no harm.

Its equally important to include a Software License as well as a copywrite statement.

The Wiki Page below is quite good....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_licenses

The GPL is quite good, but does not restrict distribution, so therefore not suitable.