Are these people infringing WP copyright?

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  ninglun · Member · Oct 23, 2007 at 1:37 am

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  Got a link back to one of my posts from http://blogbyalerts.blogspot.com/2007/10/google-alert-i_2477.html I was interested to note their template, and perhaps WP will be too! Follow the tabs there and you will see even more examples of what appear to be rip-offs from WP and others. The blog itself on the link above seems to exist mostly as a vehicle for the ads, some of them very annoying…

  I am Lines from a Floating Life.

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  raincoaster · Member · Oct 23, 2007 at 1:40 am

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  That’s nasty! The template’s not an issue: it’s Garland, which was designed for Drupal and adapted for WordPress. I believe it’s freely available.

  But they are definitely a blog scraper. You might want to email them and assert your copyright, or you can contact the company with the ads and report them there; that’s highly effective.

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  timethief · Member · Oct 28, 2007 at 9:16 pm

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  “There have been a lot of questions recently about how to deal with blog scrapers, and i thought it might be useful to put up a step-by-step guide for sending a DMCA notice (or not).”

  Please refer to this excellent instructional forum post by judyb12 …
  DMCA or Not? https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic.php?id=17307