Well I guess you could organise some form of boycott of the firm if
you're sure of your claim; but, AFAIK, it's up to the owner of a
copyright to defend it.

In the present circs, I imagine that would be the widow; so you might
try contacting her in case she doesn't already know about this mob.
If she's been dealing with wills etc. recently, she's probably got a
lawyer on tap that she could at least ask about it. ISTM she may not
be all that concerned and would be quite happy to just have an
acknowledgement on the site. If there's still a royalty income stream
from the book a bit of referenced plagiarism may be a Good Thing. :-)

In article <zSYtd.1487$sU4.205@trndny01>,
wrote:
>About a year or so ago, I was doing a search for Thai recipes when I
>came across a website for an importer of Thai foodstuff - ingredients,
>cookware, etc. I looked through their extensive recipe collection and
>thought that it looked rather good, but something about the recipes rang
>familiar. I searched other links and came across the Philpotts' recipes
>(Ian and Muoi) that I had seen in various newsgroups and mailing lists
>in years past and was happy to have found them again. When reading
>through a few of them, I realized that the recipes found on the
>retailer's website that they had claimed to be their own recipes, were
>in fact those written by Ian K. Philpott - some of the recipes had the
>occasional measurement change, but the description, ingredients, and
>methods were the same, word for word (except in situations where Ian
>wrote "my wife", the retailer swapped "we" or "our").
>
>I wrote to the retailer and asked them what was up - the response I got
>was that the recipes were indeed found online, but that they took a lot
>of time in testing out each recipe, blah blah blah. But that didn't
>explain why the Philpotts' recipes were claimed as the retailer's own,
>word for word with no credit given to the Philpotts whatsoever. I also
>contacted the owner of another website who did have the Philpotts recipe
>collection, but he gave credit where credit was due and he was aware of
>the situation with the retailer, but he felt that piracy was so rampant
>that his hands were tied and he felt that there was nothing to be done.
>
>So, a recent discussion on another group recipe copyrights made me
>think about this retailer again. Maybe if enough people raised a stink
>about it, they'd either give proper credit to the Philpotts or they'd
>take the recipes down instead of trying to profit off of them. What
>would you do? Yeah, maybe I shouldn't care so much because it's not
>hurting me personally, but I knew Ian through the few mailing lists that
>we were both members of before he passed away and so in a very small
>way, I feel like his "legacy" needs to be protected, y'know?
>
>N.

Cheers, Phred.

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LID