It seems I'm guilty of a copyright violation; recently I received the following letter...... From: Renee Newsom Save Address - Block Sender To: vcladmins@ctrl-c.liu.se Save Address CC: ha_seng@hotmail.com Save Address Subject: Fwd: Trouble Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2000 12:42:14 -0700 (PDT) Reply Reply All Forward Delete Previous Next Close The forwarded message is an attempt to correct a copyright infringement and any help with this is greatly appreciated. I am sorry if this causes any difficulties with anyone but I have rights to this character and would like this corrected as soon as possible. Thank you. Renee Newsom Note: forwarded message attached. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Free email you can access from anywhere! http://mail.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ From: Renee Newsom To: mel@netcom.com CC: jaguarl@netcom.com Save Address Subject: Trouble Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2000 08:54:08 -0700 (PDT) Hi my name is Michele Renee Newsom and I needed to email you and ask you to help me with a problem I have. I created a character in 1991 which is copyrighted by the game Solar, her name is Trouble and she is a Cheetah sarr. You can find her info at the following sites... http://geocities.com/quorval/trouble2.html this will show you one of the peices of artwork I have done of her. http://www.larp.com/jahavra will take you to a jump page to the other sites and galleries I have created about the character and in the first gallery shows me in the costume and persona I use as the character in question. Her history can be found at the above and at http://www.larp.com/jahavra/trbl3.html My problem is that while wandering the pages of the web I came upon a story and followed it back to the source which is your site. The story is about a cheetah woman named Trouble whose history bears a strikingly glarin resemblance to mine. While I am sure this is a mistake upon the part of the author Kittiara and that there was no actual attempt to usurp my character I am asking politely that the character either be changed slightly so that it is no longer a cheetah or the name is changed or if that is unacceptable then that the entire story line be taken down. I understand the person, Kittiara, in question is probably attached to the character and again I appologize but I have had this character in copyright since 1991 when she was created and have since then if you look at her developmental history in the above links, drawn her and written about her and use the persona. I thank you ahead of time for your cooperation and you can reach me at this address quorval@yahoo.com. Yours Michele Renee Newsom When I started writing, I had no knowledge of this person's character, or works; there was no intentional piracy. However, as she seems to have the prior claim, my stories have been withdrawn until I can rework the character, and the stories. As there was a LOT of text there, this will, sadly, take me an incredible amount of time. Please be patient. Someday I WILL return. Thanks, Kittiara