Jiwat

Arch-Druid Join Date: Jul 2011 Posts: 1,043



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Since all the infrastructure was in his and his friend's name, there's no way you're going to be able to claim ownership of it.



What you might be able to do is get all the content you've provided removed via DMCA. It's kind of a pain in the ass process, though, it'll just be some minor harassment and moderate to high costs for your end. There's no copyright certificate on this content, and most of this content is years old Blizzard news, right? I'm not sure a report from 2010's Blizzcon is worth enough money to fight over.



What you should do is just keep it all internal next time, as there's more stuff the court sees as his than as yours. If you actually created a good amount of the site's content, he'll probably have less going forward anyway. You're sort of lucky in that this is a news site basically.



In the meantime, why is your domain still pointing to his site? You're just helping him readjust everyone to "BlizzPlanets". Get a page up somewhere (Tumblr, perhaps) explaining that you've lost the site that used to be at this domain and point people there. Don't say you got ripped off, just say the site is gone and you have no backup. You also aren't affiliated with any identical looking/sounding sites out there on the internet.



I've actually seen a lot of high quality blog-style web sites run off Tumblr with their own custom domain. If you aren't a designer but just want to focus on creating content it's not a bad way to go. Either way, start a new site, and don't call it BlizzPlanet ("World of Blizzard", perhaps? You can use that one license free if you do :b) but just continue to point your domain to it. He can't accuse you of squatting since the domain predates this stuff. Last edited by Jiwat; 05-03-2013 at 03:11 AM ..