On This Day In Canadian History*....

1913 - William Stewart Herron discovers oil on the Dingman site near Calgary, sparking Alberta's first oil boom. Herron, a local horse wrangler, first noticed gas bubbling out of an old mine shaft in 1911, collected samples, and formed a company to drill on the site. (*Courtesy of those whiny bitches @ Northern Blue Publishing)

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I received this interesting e-mail yesterday informing me I am in copyright infringement for publishing On This Day In Canadian History....

From: northernblue@gmail.com
Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2011 07:49:40 -0400
Subject: Notice of Copyright Infringement
CC: markp.hunter@rci.rogers.com; kalum.figura@rci.rogers.com; rogersdigitalmedia@rci.rogers.com; webmedia@rci.rogers.com; mgeist@uottawa.ca; ombudsman@rci.rogers.com
To: pnkilmartin@hotmail.com

Mr. Kilmartin:

This is to inform you that on your
105.3 KiSS Fm ViP Blog
"Free stuff is the Best"

and in various RSS and Twitter feeds, promoting KISS fm, a property of Rogers Media, you have been and are continuing to use our intellectual property from our Bell Sympatico On This Day site, and from Today in Canadian History without our permission and without payment for a licence, as required.

http://www1.sympatico.ca/cgi-bin/on_this_day
http://www.northernblue.ca/todayincanadianhistory/index.php/Welcome_to_Today_in_Canadian_History
Please read the Terms of Use as well as the Creative Commons licence notice, which has been upheld in court.
http://www.northernblue.ca/todayincanadianhistory/index.php/Terms_of_Use
http://www.northernblue.ca/products/index.php/Northern_Blue_Publishing_-

_Creative_Commons_Copyright
These are promotional sites for our digital products and use of our intellectual property without permission can and will harm us financially and reputationally.
Please cease and desist or we will have to take steps to enforce our copyright and intellectual property.


Alastair Sweeny
V-P Development
Northern Blue Publishing
http://www.northernblue.ca/products/
northernblue@gmail.com
Twitter: @northernbluepub

This was my reply.....
Dear Sir,

First of all, I have NEVER EVER claimed to be the original publisher of my "This Day In Canadian History...." anyone who asks are told I use Bell Sympatico's "On This Day" as a reference guide. If you want credit, no problem, I'll give you credit on my blog, which by the way is a fan site for KISS Fm and their contests, aimed at helping friends and fans win prizes that KiSS gives away by sharing daily ViP songs and bonus codes that are given out on an hourly basis every weekend. No money has ever been made off of my site which I volunteer my own time to publish and run. In no way is it endorsed by KiSS Fm and/or Rogers media!

Also, I could never ever have imagined that Canadian History or History of any kind can be trademarked or licensed....it is FREAKING history!! From a FREE site which gives it away at no charge and continues to give it away. How can you trademark and charge for history??. Where did you get it from? History books? Encyclopedias? other reference materials?

As for hurting you financially, how can that happen if you give it away and I in-turn do the same? As for reputation, how the frack can I harm yours by doing a little coping and pasting of historical material? A typo? An errant semi-colon? A hanging participle?

I used your site because it gives interesting info, tidbits, trivia about something that is poorly taught in Canadian schools....Canadian History. I could go to any number of reference sources and use them, but I chose to use yours because of it's focus on Canadian History. You should be glad I discovered your FREAKIN' site and share Canadian History with other Canadians!

The way I see it is you give it away and I in-turn also give it away. No harm, no foul. And as a result people learn history, their OWN history.


Patrick Kilmartin


P.S. - Also, for a VP of a publishing firm, you might want to mix in some Spell-Check, cause I and my FREE Spell-Check program picked up a few spelling mistakes in your letter. One would think a publishing firm VP would have experience in editing and proof-checking. Tell you what...for my "license" fee I'll head over to Best Buy or Future Shop and buy a paid version of Spell-Check and mail it to you!