Legality of Stealing domain name in YouTube

**RobM** · 02-25-2008, 05:39 PM

Ok, I just came across this one. Lets say that you have a listing and you do a video and post it on youtube. Fine so far. Now lets say that in the description you go thru the top 10 googled websites for a particular local real estate search and you basically steal all the information from those sites and put all that info in the description of your youtube video post. So for example, in the description it says really nothing about the property but has listed the website address of the websites in the google search, the agents names of those sites, etc. How would you take that and what would you do and what can be done.

Let me know your thoughts

rob

**tsteuwer** · 02-25-2008, 06:59 PM

I'm a little confused.

Are you saying someone stole your information, put it in their YouTube description, and typed the URL to your website and name?

If your page is copy written, I would first ask the person to remove it from their description. If they do not comply, I would then contact YouTube for copy write infringement, or, there should be a button on the videos page where you can report copy write infringement.

**RobM** · 02-25-2008, 07:08 PM

I knew this maybe hard to explain. Some of my data is in the description but more of another persons that I will not name.
Here is the example of what happened.
Say my site description is: Steve Smith, Contact me at Stevesmith.com about Homes in the Florida or visit me on my other site at www.floridaforyou.com...and so on. This info was then copied word for word in the details of the video. In fact, he has the same info in all his videos, exactly the same. His description is like a mile long.

Again, my name is not in his description, but I have left an email to the people that are in the description...I just cant believe that a scumbag could or would do such a thing. Then to top things off, I check out his website and he pulls this crap with a ton of keywords in the same color as his background except he doesnt quite match the color so I can see them anyway which is why he isnt in the google index.

It will be interesting to see how this is handled
I hope this describes it better

**tsteuwer** · 02-25-2008, 07:12 PM

If your site is copy written, I would acknowledge this in an e-mail to him asking him to remove it. If you could get all the agents to do this, I'm sure he would remove it.

Other than that, I would contact YouTube.