Myspace Layout Stolen, effing loser can't make his own layout Options

[--DANNY--]

I was looking at the detailed visitor stats for my website (DannyDahl.com) and I noticed a large amount of hits from a myspace profile. Upon visiting the profile I see some mexican guy's face and text plastered all over my layout. He even used the same wording for each section on the profile. Same exact code... exactly the same.
He used a different picture of his face and slightly changed the background.

looking at the code of the profile, I see img references to like 10 images that are on my profile and hosted on my website.
my freaking Trakzor and cbtracker images are even on there! (that explains why i thought i had a million stalkers from new york all of the sudden)

aaaanyways, I'm pissed.
So before emailing him asking him politely... eff that shite this biznitch is even using this for his design myspace, showing off his work he's designed... he probably didn't do any of it.
so instead of messaging him, i sent an email to the Copyright Infringement staff of Myspace asking that all of the content be removed from the offender's profile, along with the deletion of his account if possible because I will not tolerate plagurisim.

If myspace staff is unhelpful, I'll probably try to screw over the bandwidth of his freewebs account that is hosting the 2 images that are his on the profile, and once that's done, then send him legally threatening email.

I'd link to the profile, but I don't want anyone tipping this mexican bastard off before myspace sees the profile.


Anyone else deal with this before? what did you do?

[transcendentalis...]

i would check out creative commons licensing if i were you. i haven't ever used it or felt the need to, nor do i know enough about the licenses to say "yeah, of course you can use this!", but i skimmed through their faq and it seems pretty legit.

google it?

[--DANNY--]

i would check out creative commons licensing if i were you.

All I know is that according to the terms of Copyright...

"Copyright protection subsists from the time the work is created in fixed form. The copyright in the work of authorship immediately becomes the property of the author who created the work. Only the author or those deriving their rights through the author can rightfully claim copyright."

So I legally claimed copyright over the material on my profile when I created it.

This guy also did the same, which is illegal.

And from what I understand about the CC licensing, if something is labeled under CC as all rights reserved or not stated what rights are reserved at all, then if the content is reproduced, the original owner must be given credit... I think.