Copy of our website listed in ODP

I'm not sure if I should list URLs here, so I'll speak generically.

A company copied nearly our entire website; their listing was removed from ODP by a meta some years ago, but it appears it's been listed again in Regional.

I have ample proof. Could someone point me in the right direction?

I'd recommend you send the details to one of the meta editors who post here regularly (an editall can look into things and remove a listing if it isn't appropriate but if you need a full investigation, you're best to go straight to a meta).

Thanks, motsa, will do.

Diane,

I had a similar experience and was instructed to go straight to the legal dept. at AOL.

You can easily file a DMCA complaint with any search engine that is listing the copy of your site, and it will be removed shortly. Google's policy is to post a copy of every complaint they receive at ChillingEffects.org. The others don't do that.

AlltheWeb DMCA:
http://www.alltheweb.com/info/about/dmcapolicy.html
Covers AlltheWeb and Lycos

AltaVista:
http://www.altavista.com/web/legal/copyright

AOL:
http://www.aol.com/copyright/infringement.html
Covers DMOZ

AskJeeves:
http://www.askjeevesinc.com/docs/ajinc/legal/legal.html
Covers AskJeeves and Teoma

Google:
http://www.google.com/dmca.html
Getting a copy out of Google basically eliminates it from the web since Google feeds Yahoo!, AOL, Netscape, Alexa, iWon.com, Earthlink (when you select "The Web" as a search option), and Compuserve.

LookSmart Directory and Search Results:
http://aboutus.looksmart.com/corp.jhtml?page=terms

MSN Search Engine:
http://www.microsoft.com/info/cpyrtInfrg.htm

Yahoo Directory:
http://docs.yahoo.com/info/copyright/copyright.html

Good luck.

C. J. Newton

Be sure to formally notify their ISP also. Then when the site goes down, an ODP editor will remove the listing while AOL's lawyers are still watching the grass grow.

Hi hutcheson! I will try that again, but was ignored the first time. Boy, this is a lot of work.