Ryan
Sr. Member
A lawyer working for Ford Motor Company just had my web server shut down. They never contacted me directly, so I got the feeling this is barely legal. But my hosting company acted quickly to protect themselves without putting much thought into it. I know 99% of the content on the site was hosted on many other sites. First protect yourself if necessary, secondly if you have any advice that would disprove their claims let me know.
Here is part of that email:
Here is part of that email:
We represent Ford Motor Company (“Ford”) in intellectual property matters.
It has recently come to our client's attention that infringing content is posted at http://www.fordfuelinjecton.com which contains copies of Ford’s copyright protected materials.
Ford is the exclusive owner of the copyrights for the above-mentioned documents.
Such unauthorized use of our client’s copyright protected materials is an infringement in violation of the United States Copyright Laws, 17 U.S.C. § 101, et seq., which protects copyright owners from having their works copied without authorization of the copyright owner.
Such an infringement is also contrary to Web Hosting stated policies, which provide that:
“No intellectual property of any nature contained within or via this Site may be copied, published, reverse engineered, decompiled, exchanged, traded, or broadcast in any way without the written permission of the content owner.”
Accordingly, we request that you remove or disable access to this material as it appears on your service in as expedient a fashion as possible because it infringes upon copyright rights, including the above-mentioned listings at http://www.fordfuelinjection.com/.
The undersigned certifies in good faith that the content at the identified http://www.fordfuelinjection.com/ posting infringes the rights of Ford Motor Company and that the use of this material in such a fashion is not authorized by the copyright holder, the copyright holder's agent, or the law.
The undersigned further certifies that the above information is accurate and that Brooks Kushman PC is authorized to act on behalf of Ford.
My contact information appears below.
Signed under penalty of perjury,
Brooks Kushman P.C.