ESSpa KOZMETIKA SKINCARE lifted giant chunks of quotes from a GO INSIDE Magazine review Janna Sweenie and I wrote together on Karin Herzog skincare.
Taking intellectual material that does not belong to you and posting it
on your website — commercial or not — to make money or not — on
words that do not belong to you, is stealing.
Here is the URL with the stolen material:
http://www.esspa.net/page/page/144739.htm
…and we will keep that link here (even if it later disappears) as
proof we caught them with their hand in our writing jar. We created a
digitally signed .PDF file of that site to document the theft of our
words for our lawyers.
The theft does not include any link to our review or a full
re-publication. This time the theft is sneakier: They stole huge
paragraphs of our review without our permission and then changed the
spelling of our names from “Janna Sweenie” and “David Boles” to “Janna
Sweeney” and “David Bowles.”
You cannot violate our copyright like that
and ESSpa KOZMETIKA SKINCARE needs to delete any and all references to
us and to our review from their website.
Here is our Original Review: http://goinside.com/98/12/herzog.html
Companies like ESSpa KOZMETIKA SKINCARE that do “business” like that on
the backs of authors who write for free deserve to lose consumer
goodwill. Here are the other GO INSIDE Magazine thefts we have discovered in the past from other companies.