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The Web Theft Hall of ShamePublic exposure identifies plagiarists and violators who are use stolen copies of other people's work, articles, photographs, or trademarked names on the InternetVerum est Nunquam Criminosus © 2023- 2010 WebTheftHallofShame.com all rights reserved This website exposes to public view the identity of apparent or confirmed copyright or trademark violators who have declined to stop their violation. Using the Heisenberg Journalism Principle, also referred to as the Sunshine Principle, articles here shed the light of public exposure upon improper, illegal and generally disreputable marked-up copies of online trademark® and copyright© violations including web articles that have been posted by copyright violators and content plagiarists. Information provided here includes a link to violating material or copyright name, the violator's business or personal name, and their contact information. Also provided is a link to the original copy from which the trademark, copyrighted or plagiarized material was copied without permission. Trademark violations are the responsibility of the owner / user of the violating name. Mere registration of a trademarked name is not itself a violation of the law. But unauthorized use of a trademarked name at a website is illegal. Courts have held that owners of domain names who have usurped trademarked names have been forced to surrender the registered name. Plagiarism is theft of intellectual property and is illegal. It also reflects poorly on individuals or businesses who make use of plagiarized material and by the concomitant theft of website traffic web theft plagiarism also inflicts recoverable monetary damages. Notice: Removal of plagiarized material and copyright-violating-material is the responsibility of the owner / author of the offending website where the illegal copy is published. Open Website Plagiarism CasesPlagiarism and copyright violations by Joe Keresztury JWK Home Inspections - San AntonioReporting Date: 2022/04/01 - still open, 2023/11/27 Offending website: http://www.jwkhomeinspections.com/ Owner: Mr. Joe Keresztury, JWK home inspections, San Antonio TX Examples: screen shots of plagiarized or copyright violating material or identity theft by html meta tags appearing at the website above: found at http://www.jwkhomeinspections.com/node/181 Despite personal and attorney's requests addressed to him, Mr. Joe Keresztury continues to engage in identity theftt and content theft from a popular online encyclopedia, directing search engines like google maps to send searches for inspectapedia.com to his own home inspection website. See the screen shots below, made moments ago: 2022/04/27 10:27 AM EST of web link: http://www.jwkhomeinspections.com/node/181 [Click to see a bigger image] Here at the Web Theft Hall of Shame you can see both Mr. Keresztury's web page with annotations and also excerpts from the original source web page(s) whose identity has been copied. This case appears to be deliberate identity theft, as the Keresztury web page masquerading as a reference link to InspectApedia.com, takes that websites traffic, income, content, and directs it to his own home inspection business. Aside from the visible copies of data this web page operates more-clandestine and more-expert and very effective effort by coding in the JWK web page html meta tags that direct search engines to think that the JW Keresztury website page and thus identity is part of InspectApedia.com. That masquerade is amplified "under the covers" (not normally visible to someone landing on the JWK page) by html meta tag code shown below and excerpted from the top of this JWK page.
Below in this Google Maps Search for InspectApedia.com you will note that the JWK page appears as second-most-important in the search engine's results. Below is a view of text, website ID, website favicon logo copied to JWK website Below is an example of the original source from which the Joe Keresztury home inspection website has used that site's material without permission. Click to see a larger version. Response from the plagiarizing website - jwkhomeinspections.com owner as of 2022/04/27: [nothing]
Plagiarism and copyright violations by nantou.co - ufazonu.info - kapemvun.infoReporting Date: 2019/10/10 Offending website: http://nantou.co/donnacona-board/ Examples - screen shots of plagiarized or copyrighted material appearing at the website above: found at http://ufazonu.info/donnacona-board/ and The (C) InspectApedia.com copyright notice is visible in the photograph shown above Example of original content at originating publisher and their © protected material found at https://inspectapedia.com/structure/Fiberboard_Sheathing.php and at https://inspectapedia.com/structure/Fiberboard-Sheathing-Water-Damage.php Efforts to contact the offending website publisher: Left (C) violation notice and contact information on the above link's page reply form. Form appears as "waiting for moderation" as shown below WARNING: the page above includes (C) protected image(s) - content from InspectApedia.com that is used here without permission. We are writing you this notice to request that our copyrighted materials be removed from your website immediately as well as any other of our material that you have used without permission. Please provide your written acknowledgement within 20 days that you have complied, removed ALL materials you have copied from InspectApedia.com and won't again use any our (C) materials anywhere without first obtaining our written permission [deleted] NOTE: ufazonu's "Contact" link loops without opening any contact information or web page http://ufazonu.info/# Offending website's response: none to date Plagiarism and copyright violation by ufazonyu.infoReporting Date: 2019/10/10 Offending website: http://ufazonu.info/donnacona-board/ Example or screen shots of plagiarized or copyrighted material appearing at the website above: found at http://ufazonu.info/donnacona-board/ The (C) InspectApedia.com copyright notice is visible in the photograph shown above Example of original content at originating publisher and their © protected material found at https://inspectapedia.com/structure/Fiberboard-Sheathing-Mold-FAQs.php Efforts to contact the offending website publisher: Left (C) violation notice and contact information on the above link's page reply form. Form disappears on submission. WARNING: the page above includes (C) protected image(s) - content from InspectApedia.com that is used here without permission. We are writing you this notice to request that our copyrighted materials be removed from your website immediately as well as any other of our material that you have used without permission. Please provide your written acknowledgement within 20 days that you have complied, removed ALL materials you have copied from InspectApedia.com and won't again use any our (C) materials anywhere without first obtaining our written permission [deleeted] NOTE: ufazonu's "Contact" link loops without opening any contact information or web page http://ufazonu.info/# Offending website's response: none to date Plagiarism and copyright violations by kapemvun.infoReporting Date: 2019/10/10 Offending website: http://kapemvun.info/hanging-flower-baskets-5-secrets-the-pros-utilize/ Example or screen shots of plagiarized or copyrighted material appearing at the website above:http://kapemvun.info/hanging-flower-baskets-5-secrets-the-pros-utilize/ The (C) InspectApedia.com copyright notice is visible in the photograph shown above Example of original content at originating publisher and their © protected material at https://inspectapedia.com/structure/Fiberboard-Sheathing-Water-Damage.php found at Efforts to contact the offending website publisher: The website's page provides no contact information nor link to such. Sent complaint to registrar at abuse@dynadot.com Registrar: Dynadot, LLC Notice that this registrar's domain servers sport more than 17 million domain names Offending website's response: none to date Plagiarism by Jeff Herboldshimer, Associated Home Inspection Services, Yuba,Suter, Butte, Colusa, North Sacramento[CLICK TO SEE AN ENLARGED VERSION OF ANY IMAGE]CONSUMER PROTECTION NOTICE & Consumer Warning about Jeff Herboldshimer, Associated Home Inspection Services, Yuba,Suter, Butte, Colusa, North Sacramento : Here is an egregious case of plagiarism observed on 03/13/2014, also violation of copyright law. Here is correspondence: To: Jeff Herboldshimer NOTICE: This is a legal cease and desist order that requires immediate action on your part.At your web site at your link ILLEGAL COPY: http://www.associatedinspections.com/system/files/userfiles/reports/The_Zinsco_Electrical_Panel.pdf Here is a PDF file of the illegal copy of information about Zinsco Electrical Panel Hazards You have created a PDF of our (C) copyright protected material found beginning at ORIGINAL CONTENT: https://inspectapedia.com/electric/Zinsco_Electrical_Panels.php found at ZINSCO SYLVANIA ELECTRICAL PANELS - home - and used it without our permission. This is not only a theft of content and a violation of federal copyright law, it is also a theft of website traffic and thus our income. You need to remove this and any other content at your website that you have copied from InspectApedia.com immediately. [deleted]
Plagiarism by Christopher Perry, Accu-Rite Building Inspections, Portland OR[CLICK TO SEE AN ENLARGED VERSION OF ANY IMAGE] CONSUMER PROTECTION NOTICE & Consumer Warning Plagiarism observed on 11/2/2015, again on 12 Nov 2015 also violation of copyright law. To: Chris: We have corresponded several times about your continued publication of material improperly and illegally copied from our website. It's not a victimless crime - as your copy takes away our web traffic and thus our ability to support the website. Your copy of our mateiral is a violation of federal law, and it's plain wrong. Yet it has not stopped. Screen shots of the offending website and the copyright-protected document on FPE are shown above.. This is a legal cease and desist order that requires immediate action on your part. At your web site at your link below http://accuriteinspections.com/Federal_Pacific_Electrical_Panel_Info.pdf You have created a PDF of our (C) copyright protected material and used it without our permission. This is not only a theft of content and a violation of federal copyright law, it is also a theft of website traffic and thus our income. Our original content is found at https://inspectapedia.com/electric/Zinsco_Electrical_Panels.php You need to remove this and any other content at your website that you have copied from InspectApedia.com immediately. Editor/Publisher
Plagiarism by Tom Corbett, Tomacor, Inc., Chicago Home Inspection FirmCONSUMER PROTECTION NOTICE & Consumer Warning about Tom Corbett and Tomacor Home Inspection Firm in Chicago: Here is an egregious case of plagiarism observed on 03/13/2014, also violation of copyright law. Here is a screen shot of Google's search engine response to a search for "guide to mixing valves" on 4/7/14, weeks after Mr. Corbett was asked to remove the plagiarized text from his website. [Click to enlarge any image]
Here is a screen shot of the first page of Mr. Corbett's plagiarized copy of the article under discussion: Here is a link to the original article that was copied by Tom Corbett. (The original author has continued to update and add to the material.) Notice requesting that Mr. Corbett remove his plagiarized article and copyright violation was provided on 3/13/14, including the link to the document. Mr. Corbett replied the same day. Here is that correspondence: NOTICE: To Tom Corbett This is a legal cease and desist order that requires immediate action on your part. At your web site at your link http://www.tomacor.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Guide-to-Mixing-Valves-and-Anti-Scald-Valves-on-Heating-Equipment.pdf You have created a PDF of our (C) copyright protected material and used it without our permission. This is not only a theft of content and a violation of federal copyright law, it is also a theft of website traffic and thus our income. You need to remove this and any other content at your website that you have copied from InspectApedia.com immediately. ... [deleted] REPLY - Corbett to InspectApedia Tom Corbett What material are you referencing? REPLY: Tom I included the link to your copy of our material in my original email. http://www.tomacor.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Guide-to-Mixing-Valves-and-Anti-Scald-Valves-on-Heating-Equipment.pdf Persistent copyright violation by Tom Corbett, Tomacor, Inc., Chicago Home Inspector Leads to Legal ActionRegrettably, after more than a month following being notified, and after what appears to have been more than a year of plagiarism, Mr. Corbett had still failed to remove the offending material. Unable to obtain further response from Mr. Corbett, the combination of blatant theft and re-use of copyright protected material by Mr. Corbett at his website left no alternative but to pursue legal action. 8 April 2014 Legal Correspondence re Tom Corbett, Tomacor Copyright Violation ActivityExcerpt from legal correspondence
21 April 2014 Update on Tom Corbett, Tomacor Copyright Violation Activity: as website author refuses, website host service takes actionExcerpt from response to legal correspondence
Subject: [P12668336000000000] Notice of Claimed Copyright Infringement - tomacor.com Dear Madam/Sir: We write to follow up on your notice of claimed infringement. We disabled access to the website(s) cited in your notification as containing allegedly infringing material pursuant to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). Please note that the website owner retains the right under the DMCA to file a counter-notification. In the event that occurs, we will provide you with a copy of the counter-notification. We trust the above addresses your concerns. Should you have further questions, please contact us. Thank you, Marvella Update on Tom Corbett, Tomacor Copyright Violation & Plagiarism Activity - Plagiarism of content continues to be present at the Tomacor website as of 28 April 2014.InspectApedia's attorney informed us that Mr. Corbett called to understand the problem. The attorney explained that "as long as the infringing material was removed we were fine with the rest of his website going back online." We since heard from his web host, and that is what has happened. The site is back up, and the [original plagiarized] PDF is no longer available. However, regrettably additional plagiarized content continues to be published at the Tomacor Website including the following: Here is an example of additional plagiarized content that has not been removed - this PDF contains three of (C) photos re-labeled, still bearing the original website's (C) Notice. [CLICK TO SEE AN ENLARGED VERSION OF ANY IMAGE] Mr. Corbett has also taken without permission four illustrations originally produced by Carson Dunlop Associates (on Fire Stopping, on Type "B" heating vents, on Heat Pump Schematic Summer Mode, Chimney Height above Appliance). Those red (C) 2008 Carson Dunlop Associates stampings on those illustrations were put on those images when used with permission at the InspectApedia website. http://www.tomacor.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/HEATING-and-AC.pdf is the file containing plagiarized content. More apparent Tomacor plagiarism: Mr. Corbett's article on MASONRY – Brick Veneer at Contains illustrations on page 1 and page 5 that evidently are plagiarized from Carson Dunlop Associates (Toronto) but the (C) notices are absent, removed or cropped. This online work in the material here demonstrates a blatant disregard for copyright law and rights. 4/29/2014 Tomacor updateAccording to the attorney handling this case, the Tomacor website author informed the attorney that he was unaware that he had plagiarized material, didn't know where it was, and required that the original authors inform him of where he had done so - this despite having been given the locations of that material at his website. Subsequently the two PDF files discussed above were removed from the site. This case is suspended pending monitoring results. Didn't know? Really? Plagiarism by Advanced Septic ServicesHere is a clear plagiarism case observed on 03/08/2011, also a copyright violation: Screen shot of the Google search engine's response: see http://inspectapedia.com/Copyright_Violation_Google_Search.jpg The FIRST LINK returned by Google at the top of the search results is http://www.advancedsepticsystem.com/pump-outs/ The above web page is a direct verbatim copy of original web page text and table found at InspectAPedia.com (and a copyright violation) The original original web article that was copied by Advanced Septic Services can be seen at http://www.inspectapedia.com/septic/tankpump.htm The THIRD LINK returned by Google is our original web page from which the first web page copied our material Notice provided to Advanced Septic Systems on 03/08/2011 Web Theft Hall of Shame Trademark Violations InspectOPedia
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Notice of Plagiarism by Yaroslav Gonchar - London's Upperplumbers in the U.K. Swoops to Low Heights
Resolved: 2015/12/30: the company described below appeared to have removed their plagiarized materials.
CONSUMER PROTECTION NOTICE & Consumer Warning about UpperPlumbers in the U.K.: Here is an egregious case of plagiarism observed on 12 September 2015, also violation of U.S. copyright law.
Upperplumbers is a very large UK plumbing company listing dozens of plumbers throughout London including West London, South London plumbers, South West London Plumbers and South London Plumbers. We can't tell you a thing about the honesty or competence of the fellows who may show up to do your plumbing work but the Webtheft Hall of Shame must report with regret that Upperplumbers has not hesitated to stoop rather towards Lowerplumbers in swiping text and images from other websites to promote their business.
The company has been asked by the original authors to remove the Upperplumbers plagiarized content which appears (by their own web page dates) to have gone on for years - at least since 2013-02-03. The company's web page meta tags identify Yaroslav Gonchar as owner and makes a false copyright claim. [Image of HTML meta tags showing Yaroslav Gonchar, as owner of Upperplumber with Whois confimring the owner and indicating: Registrant's address: Flat 1 42 Leamore street London Hammersmith W6 0JZ United Kingdom]
The Webthefthallofshame will remove this consumer warning about Upperplumbers in London, a company offering plumbing services thorughout London when the company removes its plagiarized material from its website. Webthefthallofshame.com has no business nor other relationship with Webthefthalloffamers discussed at this website.
Here is plagiarist's Upperplumbers web page titled "Exam revision mateirals for Plumbing Level 2 & 3 and ACS Gas Safety test" found at http://www.upperplumbers.co.uk/plumbing/plumbing_pages.php?title=Components%20and%20Safety%20Devices&cat=1
To see the beginning of plagiarized content just scroll to Flue Gas Spillage Switches in the page whose link is given above. Here is the Upperplumber plagiarized web page in PDF format - copied content extends from the bottom of page 3 of this PDF thorugh the end of the document.
[CLICK TO SEE AN ENLARGED VERSION OF ANY IMAGE]Here is a link to original [not-plagiarized] content by the original authors: https://inspectapedia.com/heat/Spill_Switch_Tripping.php The original InspectApedia.com content on Spill Switch Tripping has been plagiarized (in fact copied verbatim) by owner Yaroslav Gonchar at London's Upperplumbers in the U.K. along with our own original (C) marked photographs.
These are just examples - a few excerpts - see the original author's material at InspectApedia original article on Spill Switchesand compare it with the plagarized copies at Upperplumbers.com plagiarized copy of that materialto see that Upperplumbers copied nearly all of the original article, simply making a few spatial rearrangements of the original text.
The Upperplumbers plumbed most of the text of the article and represent it as their own work, earning the first Webtheft Hall of Shame award given out in 2015.
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