On 02/25/2011 05:46 AM, A little note for Google wrote:
Dr. Ken B. Stripping peoples PDF's and copyright notices does not make them yours. You have stripped all of Brian Wiser's messages from the Applied Engineering documents and still claim that you did them. The only problem is the AE Brochures are not an AE Product. They were produced by Brian specifically for http://AE.AppleArchives.com Not crediting people for their work is sad and removal of copyright messages is a crime. Those items were produced in 2010 by Brian and you have been asked to remove them numerous times. Since that has not work, we will shift this to a public arena. Many people put in a ton of work to make these items available. QUIT CLAIMING THEM AS YOURS.
I'm just an onlooker with no dog in this fight, but I'm fuzzy about the exact creative work that you're claiming copyright on. Unless you have had the rights to the original AE documents granted to you by AE (Dan and Ann Pote) or its successor, I assume you're speaking of your copyright claim to an aggregation or presentation of these documents. If so, I can appreciate the amount of work that went into such an endeavor and can certainly understand your annoyance at having another party simply lift it whole. But if you in fact do not have a license grant to reproduce those original documents, then your presentation of them on your website would in itself be a copyright violation.
I'm not going behave like a certain (thankfully) long-departed denizen of csa2 and preach about the immorality of copyright violations against entities that either no longer exist or if they do could care less. I am not offended and to the contrary find both sites to be helpful and useful.
But, can we be careful about calling each other criminals? This entire situation seems primarily a matter of common respect and courtesy.