Whatta shame, I can understand your feelings and I think the person in
question should be prosecuted for infringement of copyright. Some people
just never know where to stop.
Gernot
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> From: jonmac[SMTP:jonmac@ndirect.co.uk]
> Reply To: jonmac
> Sent: Friday, April 17, 1998 5:47 PM
> To: triumphs@autox.team.net
> Subject: Life at Triumph
>
>
> Listers,
> Over the last few months, many of you have written to me saying how
> much
> you have enjoyed reading my little offerings. I know many of you have
> printed off these stories for your own reference while others at Clubs
> have
> used them in the newsletters.
> That was the whole reason for putting them on the web in the first
> place,
> to hopefully give people pleasure and at no charge whatsoever to them.
> It has today come to my notice that someone has seen an opportunity to
> plagiarise the material and has already offered some of it within
> another
> manuscript for commercial publication, thus infringing my copyright.
> What
> the person concerned did not know is that the publisher who reviewed
> the
> manuscript was already aware of the stories anyway and immediately
> identified their true source and origin.
> It is with the greatest regret that I feel I have no option but to
> withdraw
> "Life at Triumph" from the Internet with immediate effect.
> Furthermore, I
> am taking appropriate legal advice on the steps open to me to
> prosecute the
> person concerned for using my material for commercial gain.
> For those of you who were looking forward to more stories, I can tell
> you
> that they will not vanish into the mists of time. They will appear
> (hopefully) later this year in book form with many more as yet untold
> stories added to them. I am already in the process of interviewing a
> large
> number of former Triumph employees in all branches of the company for
> their
> own recollections of daily life in the machine shops, on the assembly
> tracks, in the press shops and many other locations within the
> company.
> Much of this material will be included in the new book under MY
> authorship.
> I'm truly sorry to have to destroy the web site in question but I feel
> sure
> that on reflection you will understand my reasons.
>
> John Macartney
>
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