What can you do if you find a web site with text or images copied from your own site or from your brochures. First, contact the owners of the site, they may be unaware that you own the copyright to the material. Ask them to remove the offending items. If they refuse you will need to be able to prove that you own the copyright.

How can you find out if anyone has copied your work? Take a unique or unusual phrase from your site and do a search for it in a search engine (enclose the phrase in quotes). Choose a comprehensive engine (www.google.com is currently one of the best).

Other legal issues regarding Search engines are discussed on the excellent SearchEngineWatch site at http://searchenginewatch.com/resources/legal.html