Note: If you are not interested in laws, site politics and etc.. Feel free to skip this post and go about your business. This will be our last post on this subject for a while. We have removed the names of sites we are referring to as we will be handling this from a legal standpoint now.

FarmVille Fanatic will officially be changing it policy on one particular website. Normally we receive a lot of user submissions every single day, in the past we have checked most of the other popular blogs to make sure this content was not “stolen/borrowed” from others and that we were giving proper credit. However in light of an announcement from a certain competitor website that they do not check our site and that no images belong to either them or us or anyone else (only Zynga) we will no longer be bothering to check their site (we will continue to credit and check other sites). This means that any content submitted from their site we will no longer be aware of and if it gets posted then oh-well. This also means that they should not be watermarking any images (which we know they will) as they do not belong to them (can you say hypocrite?).

Our intentions are not to start a war, but if that’s what comes about then it is what it is. Zynga’s lawyers have contacted us on many occasions to let us know that our use of Zynga’s official logo is strictly forbidden for use on our site (and all non Zynga sites) as well as the FarmVille Secrets advertisements and the uploading/hosting of unreleased items onto our server. Our competitor site is and has been doing all of these for a long time now and yet claims that they have never been contacted and they are doing nothing wrong (clearly breaking copyright laws is a-ok!).

We at FarmVille Fanatic have had enough with other sites stealing our words and images we personally take and re-posting them without asking or crediting. We have been working with Zynga’s lawyers to make sure our site is compliant with all rules and that we are in the clear. We are now officially issuing DMCA take down forms for any site we find to be copying our content. We are also formally filling complaints of copyright infringement for any blogs using the official FarmVille logo and Displaying FarmVille Secrets’  advertisements (a purely scam site) that copy our work.

To our users we will apologize for what you may think is complaining, but we DO have limited copyright enforcements and will be taking this seriously. You are free to view other blogs and go about it as you will, but we are also free to take action and occasionally complain when our content is “borrowed” without giving credit.

Feel free to throw us on Encyclopedia Dramatica now.

For anyone who hasn’t read our Disclaimer you need to realize that we DO hold copyright and can in fact have content you steal from us removed and have your hosting shut down for multiple violations.

All written content and graphics are copyright http://farmvillefanatic.com, Zynga or their respective owners. FarmVille Fanatic is in no way associated with Zynga or FarmVille the game. Copying or redistributing any of the copyrighted material of this site is strictly forbidden without consent. All original photos, images and articles are copyright to their respective owners and no copyright infringement is intended. Where possible the appropriate accreditation is given. Due to image alterations ownership of many images can not be verified. Where ownership is known a credit is as given.

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