Unfortunately, I received this threat for having put up Information on the site known as “Fit Small Business,” who would rather monetize the Information than provide it for the benefit of Franchisees doing their due diligence.
Regrettably, the site mentioned is more concerned about monetizing documented and publically available Information than providing it freely, if even by copy, to the very people and businesses it claims to assist. This shameful behavior is consistent with those who pilfer Franchisees’ pockets for their own monetary benefit.
The original post had been properly attributed to the author under Copyright and Fair Use:
Using Creative Commons content
Although Creative Commons content won’t cost you any money to use, it’s not totally free; to use it, you must follow certain rules. People who choose to make their content Creative Commons can choose one or more of these licenses to apply to their work:
- Attribution: You must credit the creator in order to use, copy, or share the content.
- Non Commercial: You can’t make a profit from the content.
- No Derivative Works: You can’t change the content.
- Share Alike: You can change the content, but you have to let other people use your new work with the same license as the original. In other words, you can’t treat any Share-Alike work you adapt as your own copyright, even if you radically change it.
The threat begins here:
From: Compliance Fit Small Business <compliance@site name .com>
Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2022, 8:32 AM
To: info@worldwisefranchise.com
Subject: Copyright Content on Your Site
It has come to the attention of Fit Small Business (“we,” “us” or “our”) that your website, worldwisefranchise.com, has published all or part of content to which Marc Waring Ventures, LLC, the parent company of Fit Small Business, owns the legal copyright.
Specially, please be advised that the following article(s) contain(s) significant portions of our copyrighted content:
Further, the following Fit Small Business and The Close article(s) (has/have) been illegally copied in full, without permission from us:
(Links Deleted by me)
Please remove the mentioned content and any other materials that violate our copyrights within seventy-two (72) hours of your receipt of this correspondence, or we will be forced to send you a formal notice to cease and desist. We are prepared to take further legal action should it become necessary to do so.
Regards,
Marc Waring Ventures, LLC
Marc Waring Ventures
The Close
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(I’ll add to the above, however, do not use this information for due diligence unless prepared to be threatened by the site owner should you copy or print it for the benefit of those alleged it to be intended for.
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