Well, there's this fella, Chad Horne (2nd profile here that appears to be the same guy)that is a member of multiple DIY facebook groups who copied my DIY Flavoring Sources spreadsheet without my creative commons copyright-sharealike-with attribute and claimed it as his own work.
He hosted his copy on google docs first, with all my work on this sheet since 2013, all exactly the same as a revision a couple months ago including comments. He pinned "his" resource at the top of his FB JJ Do it yourself E-juice group. He is also an admin of the Facebook group Juice Junkies.
He didn't reply to private messages asking him to please attribute to the original, so I filed a complaint with Google where he was also hosting his copy. Google did a DMCA takedown as my Google Docs creation date of March 2013 was before his of March 2015.
He then posted an excel format of the sheet in his group for download. I downloaded it. It's the exact same sheet that got DMCA'd. I asked him to attribute to the original, and he said that he's the original author. I mentioned that copy-pasting something does not an original author make as all the entries were in the same order, same abbreviations, same pricing structure, and all the vendor notes were worded exactly as my notes. He then of course dumped me from the group and blocked me.
As a warning to others, this individual has no problem claiming other peoples work as his own and then lying about it. If he's in any of your groups or forums, he may steal your work too.
Unknown what he goes by on here or if he is on VU. Anyone know? 1st image is download of "his" copy. 2nd image shows example of of original-same order, same comment/note wording. 3rd image shows Google's revision history showing start date of doc in 2013 and google logs every single change and addition I've made since then which proved ownership for the DMCA takedown to happen.
He hosted his copy on google docs first, with all my work on this sheet since 2013, all exactly the same as a revision a couple months ago including comments. He pinned "his" resource at the top of his FB JJ Do it yourself E-juice group. He is also an admin of the Facebook group Juice Junkies.
He didn't reply to private messages asking him to please attribute to the original, so I filed a complaint with Google where he was also hosting his copy. Google did a DMCA takedown as my Google Docs creation date of March 2013 was before his of March 2015.
He then posted an excel format of the sheet in his group for download. I downloaded it. It's the exact same sheet that got DMCA'd. I asked him to attribute to the original, and he said that he's the original author. I mentioned that copy-pasting something does not an original author make as all the entries were in the same order, same abbreviations, same pricing structure, and all the vendor notes were worded exactly as my notes. He then of course dumped me from the group and blocked me.
As a warning to others, this individual has no problem claiming other peoples work as his own and then lying about it. If he's in any of your groups or forums, he may steal your work too.
Unknown what he goes by on here or if he is on VU. Anyone know? 1st image is download of "his" copy. 2nd image shows example of of original-same order, same comment/note wording. 3rd image shows Google's revision history showing start date of doc in 2013 and google logs every single change and addition I've made since then which proved ownership for the DMCA takedown to happen.
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