Complicated clickbank problem (spam, copyright infringement)
Hi everyone,
I have a bit of a problem on my hands and I'm interested in ideas to get rid of the problem.
I have a Clickbank product. Some affiliate has gone and created a massive pile (nearly 200) YouTube videos that violate my rights by using images from my site without permission. That, in and of itself, is not the major issue.
The major problem is that I'm also an affiliate in a private network, and the product that I promote (ethically) is a good complement to my own product. So I wish to continue doing this. Unfortunately the affiliate in question has somehow stolen audio from this other product, and used the audio in the background on all YouTube videos. It's strange, I know.
I had setup a google news alert with my product name as the keyword, so this would alert me to what people were writing about my product. The alert caught a YouTube video, which caused me to discover this spam-fest.
I passed along the information to the affiliate manager of the other product, who's audio was unjustly used.
Problem: They are mad at me. They are not blaming me, but they feel I'm ultimately somewhat responsible for this regardless of the fact that I can't control what clickbank affiliates do.
They (the affiliate manager for the other product) has already wasted time filing copyright infringement notices on 100 YouTube videos, but the problem is getting worse not better. The culprit must be using a bot to create / post these vids.
All of the promotion sends users back to a blogspot blog, and the culprit has TONS of these blogspot blogs that all rip-off copy from the clickbank vendors' websites.
Any ideas how to fight this? It just bugs me that this has my affiliate relationship with the other company in jeopardy. It's not really my fault but I *do want* to help fix the problem.
I have a bit of a problem on my hands and I'm interested in ideas to get rid of the problem.
I have a Clickbank product. Some affiliate has gone and created a massive pile (nearly 200) YouTube videos that violate my rights by using images from my site without permission. That, in and of itself, is not the major issue.
The major problem is that I'm also an affiliate in a private network, and the product that I promote (ethically) is a good complement to my own product. So I wish to continue doing this. Unfortunately the affiliate in question has somehow stolen audio from this other product, and used the audio in the background on all YouTube videos. It's strange, I know.
I had setup a google news alert with my product name as the keyword, so this would alert me to what people were writing about my product. The alert caught a YouTube video, which caused me to discover this spam-fest.
I passed along the information to the affiliate manager of the other product, who's audio was unjustly used.
Problem: They are mad at me. They are not blaming me, but they feel I'm ultimately somewhat responsible for this regardless of the fact that I can't control what clickbank affiliates do.
They (the affiliate manager for the other product) has already wasted time filing copyright infringement notices on 100 YouTube videos, but the problem is getting worse not better. The culprit must be using a bot to create / post these vids.
All of the promotion sends users back to a blogspot blog, and the culprit has TONS of these blogspot blogs that all rip-off copy from the clickbank vendors' websites.
Any ideas how to fight this? It just bugs me that this has my affiliate relationship with the other company in jeopardy. It's not really my fault but I *do want* to help fix the problem.
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