Shame...!

We provide the information on our website free of charge. We work hard to keep it up to date with current information and images. It is a lot of work.

Periodically, we are contacted by individuals, publications or organizations who wish to reproduce some of the articles or photos on their own website or in printed format. We appreciate those contacts and in most cases where we own the copyright (which we do not with all articles - some are used by us under licence and with permission) approval for use is granted with a few minor requirements such as:

Website

Must clearly show an acknowledgement of authorship and copyright
A link back to the original article
Indication that we provide reproduction information and information about our services and short courses on the web site
The item must not be displayed on a site that offers, or in conjunction with information about, competitive short courses or services.
Must indicate that the article is "used with permission" and "must not be distributed or reused without permission of the copyright holders" (us).
The item must appear on a public and no-charge area of a website. Placement in a restricted (e,g, password-required) area or one where a charge is made to access the information is not permitted.

Printed Format

Must clearly show an acknowledgement of authorship and copyright
A written link back to the original article and website
Indication that we provide reproduction information and information about our services and short courses on the web site
The item must not be displayed adjacent to anything such as an advertisement that offers, or in conjunction with information about, competitive short courses or services.
We require free placement of an advertisement (which we will provide camera-ready) in the same publication
Must indicate that the article is "used with permission" and "must not be distributed or reused without permission of the copyright holders" (us).

We suspect you will agree that these are hardly onerous terms!

Sadly the following websites either did not have the courtesy to contact us, were refused use for some reason (rare) and yet did it anyway, or have not complied with the requested requirements. This is probably just the "tip of the iceberg" and we have no idea how many of our articles or images have actually been used without permission! We do know that periodically we get notification from Universities that one of their students has plagiarized an article in a presented paper, or as with some of the items below, we get contacted by someone who says "Have you seen this...?"!!

If you happen to know one of the people below, you might have a friendly word with them that perhaps plagiarism or copyright infringement is not a particularly honourable activity. For those that are a business, it also reflects badly upon them as to credibility (if they are offering the information as their own production) and honesty. Food for thought perhaps for potential customers.

Quite apart from the irritation factor of having one's work stolen, there is also another important consideration with the written word. The articles that we present on the website often contain dynamic information that changes when new research is released. We can update those articles - and do! With articles that have been "released" by us for use on other websites, the importance of the link back to our site is that if the article has become outdated, we hope that the reader will visit our site and see an updated version. If the material has been stolen and no links or acknowledgements included, this of course is not possible. As a site dedicated to spreading the most up-to-date information, you will understand that really bothers us...

Website	URL	Notes
Equine Reproduction Services (FL, USA)	http://www.frozen-semen.com/	The fetal image in the center is that of our preserved demonstration fetus, taken from our website here. The "eye" image appears to have been taken from here. No request for usage was ever received.
LearnHorseRiding.com (U/K - hidden domain owner)	http://www.learnhorseriding.com/breeding_myth.htm	Original article to be found here
Article City	http://www.articlecity.com/articles/pets_and_animals/article_1547.shtml	Original article to be found here. The alleged "author" of this principally plagiarized article ("Monique Myers" of PerformingHorse.com) has posted or reproduced the article in a variety of locations across the Internet - all suggesting that the entire article was her original work. Or perhaps it has been picked up by "article bots" for replication - it matters not how, the fact is that it has happened and a copyrighted article has been reproduced in an act of copyright infringement.
Amazines (Otherworld Enterprises, Inc, CA, USA)	Here (long URL)	Original article to be found here. Another copy of the Myers' plagiarism.
Flixya (Flixya Entertainment, LLC, CA, USA)	http://www.flixya.com/blog/829942/Mare-Foal	Original article to be found here. Another copy of the Myers' plagiarism.
E-M-P-A.org (Dmitri Popruga, Minsk)	http://www.e-m-p-a.org/pets/63106-mare-foal.html	Original article to be found here. Another copy of the Myers' plagiarism.
Grownups Ltd (Auckland, NZ)	http://www.grownups.co.nz/read/lifestyle/pets_and_animals/breeding-your-mare	Original article to be found here. Another copy of the Myers' plagiarism.
Jason Smith/New Resolution (Pambula, NSW, Australia)	http://www.sapphirecoast.info/article.php?n=161	Original article to be found here. Another copy of the Myers' plagiarism.
SkyNewsWire.com (Joseph W. Reriani, Nairobi, Kenya)	http://www.skynewswire.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=4050	Original article to be found here. Another copy of the Myers' plagiarism.
Coutsoukis, Photius/Information Technology Associates (Ellinikon, Greece)	http://www.articlesurfing.com/pets_and_animals/mare_foal.html	Original article to be found here. Another copy of the Myers' plagiarism.
Entirely Equine (Wendy Thompson (Claverham, Somerset, England)	http://www.http://entirelyequine.info/?page_id=31	Original article to be found here. Another copy of the Myers' plagiarism.
Animal Blog	http://animal-hobbies.blogspot.com/2008/07/mare-foal.html	Original article to be found here. Ironically, this is another copy of the Myers' plagiarism., which appears to have been stolen by the blogger, as no credit to Myers is present!!
Magic Horse Ranch (VA, USA)	http://www.magichorse.net/breeding-your-mare/	Original article to be found here
"Course Hero" (Course Hero, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA, USA)	http://www.coursehero.com/file/3218833/Stallion-Info-08/ (scroll down to "Unformatted Document Excerpt" to see content).	Original article to be found here. One of the requirements we have of any reproduction of one of our articles presented on the Internet, is that it must be freely available. Our website is free (and will always remain that way). It would therefore be unfair - indeed, a rip-off - to present the same article elsewhere and charge for it! This "Course Hero" website is doing exactly that - charging for an article that is freely available elsewhere! Some "Hero"!!! It should be noted that it appears that Iowa State has picked up the article and used it in one of their courses, which is fine by us. That's what our site is all about - providing free useful and accurate horse breeding information - and if (as is often the case) it is presented to students in a University course, so much the better.