Richard.  Indeed.  Sometimes it just leaves me speechless.

Cindy.  I'll post it when we get the award.  Of course, I have to collect on the judgment.

Marilyn.  I believe that is called the "community of self".

Aaron.  BINGO!!

Jaff.  $50,000 is just what we're asking.  I'll never collect that, although I will have a judgment for some very large amount.  Collection is often a problem.  One thing for sure.  It will be on his credit report and he'll have to settle for something to clear it.

Phil.  HA!  I have a new generation of little ones getting to college age. 

Larry.  The cost of breaking the law is often more than the perp expects when they get caught, avoid service and then are suddenly noticed of a judgment.

William.  You are absolutely right.  A licensee who would steal a fellow licensee's property to compete with them would have no hesitatation in cutting corners with contract management.

Nicholas.  It defies logic, doesn't it.

Marc.  HA!  Or, he could have bought a cheap point and shoot camera, got off his butt, and taken pictures of many homes to use in his web site. 

Instead, he decided to sit at his computer and cut and paste a full page from one of my web sites. 

In one copy and paste operation he captured one of my copyright registered map graphics, the content of the page and a photo of my home.

You gotta laugh at the irony.

Big mistake. 

Jim.  Sad indeed and quite infuriating.

MIke.  About the only thing I find more insane than someone believing that they can take the intellectual property of another is the inane comments of some saying that it's a form of flattery.

Deborah.  Thanks.  There may be more of it because of the ease on the Internet.  However, the laws to protect intellectual property have favored property owners, not the thieves.

Mary.  You wouldn't be so disillusioned if you has spend many, many hours and virtual assistant money creating graphics, writing content, uploading to your web sites and working to get your sites optimized to create real estate BUSINESS and then one day see your content, maps, photos, tables, etc. on a competitor's web site.

Am I supposed to HELP my competition rank their web sites over mine with their use of my intellectual property???  I don't believe so. 

Do you believe that they steal my intellectual property UNWILLINGLY????  What does that mean.

What is a racket is folks lazily and opportunistically going to my web site or to Google, snagging my content off the Internet, posting it on their web site, gaining business and collecting commission without doing the hard work that I and others do for ourselves. 

You are an enabler.