My articles are often copied and published on other websites. All articles on my website are copyrighted. They are not to be copied to other websites without permission. Below is a sample list of various websites which have copied my articles without permission:
Date: 3 July 2017
Dear Mr Freddy Sim and Ms Viviena Chin,
It has come to my attention that your website contains plagiarized materials copied from me.
My original article:
https://www.ifa.sg/aviva-saf-group-insurance/
Your offending blog post:
https://www.sgifa.com/single-post/2015/06/30/Aviva-SAF-Group-Insurance-can-be-terminated-without-prior-notice
Your offending blog post were all copied from part of my article. In fact, even the partially scan image of the SAF Insurance terms and conditions was taken from my website.
I understand that this is not the first time plagiarized materials have appeared on your website. I learned from an IPP financial adviser that two of her articles were copied and produced on your website without permission and attribution. See
https://www.facebook.com/talkmoneylah/posts/242232639623849.
I hereby give you 7 working days to have the offending article removed.
Date: 20 April 2017
Dear Editor,
I am writing to you to inform of your copyright infringement article. The offending article is:
http://redwiretimes.com/cow-beh-cow-bu/man-nearly-lost-hdb-home-dont-fall-trap
The original article is:
https://www.ifa.sg/man-lost-almost-entire-hdb-property-siblings-due-poor-financial-planning/
According to the terms of use: https://www.ifa.sg/terms-conditions/, all articles are copyrighted unless otherwise stated.
I hereby give you 48 hours notice to remove the offending your article otherwise legal action will be taken against you.
Wilfred Ling
Date: 11 January 2016
Dear TR EMERITUS Editor,
I am writing to you to inform of your copyright infringement article. The offending article is:
http://www.tremeritus.com/2015/12/23/premium-shock-for-medishield-life/
The original article is:
http://www.ifa.sg/premium-shock-for-medishield-life/
According to the terms of use: http://www.ifa.sg/terms-conditions/, all articles are copyrighted unless otherwise stated.
I hereby give you 24 hours notice to remove the offending your article otherwise legal action will be taken against you.
Wilfred ling
Date: 22 November 2015
The website http://sgshareinvestor.blogspot.sg automatically copied articles entirely onto its own website. Although it is hosted on blogspot, but it is impossible to report the infringement to Google because the site does not have a unique URL for each article. The site does not even have a 'contact me' link. I have to ban the IP address using firewall to prevent further copying.
22 October 2014
My article Man lost almost his entire HDB property to siblings due to poor financial planning was copied without my permission on http://therealsingapore.com/content/man-lost-almost-his-entire-hdb-property-siblings-due-poor-financial-planning. There was no ‘contact me’ link on the offending website and no email to lodge my complaint. As the site is well known to be anti-government and its readers have certain kind of warped thinking, the article when viral but in a negative way. I received quite a number of negative comments accusing me of salesman.
On 17th Feb 2015, it was reported (http://news.asiaone.com/news/singapore/couple-behind-real-singapore-website-charged-sedition ) that the two editors of the website were charged for Sedition Act.
Date: 11 March 2013
Dear Siew Yi <siewyinz at yahoo dot com dot sg> ,
It has come to my attention that you have posted copyrighted articles from my mailing list to a public website. I have evidence that those articles on the website are traceable to you.
All articles cannot be publish on webpages without my permission. These articles come with a clearly warning statement:
Copyright Notice: All contents of this email is copyrighted. You are not permitted to post to any webpages whether private or public. However, you may forward this email to others with the entire content intact and the identity of the author clearly shown.
You are to remove all my articles from your website by 14 March 2013 11:59PM Singapore.
If you do not remove these articles by stated dateline,
- Legal action will be made against you for copyright infringement;
- You shall bear all legal cost incur by me;
- You shall pay copyright licensing fee of $300 per article per year.
The following are the offensive articles that you must remove:
http://10e3dollars.wordpress.com/2012/04/21/tip-20-saving-up-education-in-conjunction-with-retirement/
http://10e3dollars.wordpress.com/2012/04/20/tip-19-avoid-the-useless-degree/
http://10e3dollars.wordpress.com/2012/04/19/tip-18-get-a-cheap-education/
http://10e3dollars.wordpress.com/2012/04/18/tip-17-ensure-your-insurance-policies-do-not-transfer-any-risk-back-to-yourself/
http://10e3dollars.wordpress.com/2012/04/15/tip-16-you-can-only-get-insurance-only-when-your-present-risk-is-low/
http://10e3dollars.wordpress.com/2012/04/14/tip-15-dont-waste-money-overinsuring/
http://10e3dollars.wordpress.com/2012/04/13/tip-14-how-to-buy-the-right-insurance-using-a-simple-test/
http://10e3dollars.wordpress.com/2012/04/12/tip-13-use-insurance-as-risk-transfer/
http://10e3dollars.wordpress.com/2012/04/11/tip-12-watch-your-own-credit-rating-because-others-are-watching/
http://10e3dollars.wordpress.com/2012/04/10/tip-11-how-to-pay-off-credit-card-debt/
http://10e3dollars.wordpress.com/2012/04/06/tip-9-ensure-you-have-sufficient-emergency-cash/
http://10e3dollars.wordpress.com/2012/04/05/tip-8-avoid-negative-equity-assets/
http://10e3dollars.wordpress.com/2012/04/04/tip-7-do-you-know-your-networth/
http://10e3dollars.wordpress.com/2012/04/03/tip-6-are-you-over-spending/
http://10e3dollars.wordpress.com/2012/04/02/tip-5-are-you-earning-enough/
http://10e3dollars.wordpress.com/2012/04/01/tip-4-know-your-cash-flow-today/
http://10e3dollars.wordpress.com/2012/03/31/tip-3-do-not-set-goals-in-isolation-from-others/
http://10e3dollars.wordpress.com/2012/03/30/tip-2-ask-if-you-do-not-have-a-numerical-value-to-a-goal/
http://10e3dollars.wordpress.com/2012/03/29/tip-1-set-your-financial-goals/
In the meantime, you shall be banned from my mailing list.
Wilfred
Date 7 April 2012
Dear Webmaster,
It has come to my attention that one of my articles was published in your forum in its entirety without my permission. The infringing article can be found here:
http://www.valuebuddies.com/thread-276-page-6.html under the heading "The RISK of Perpetual Bonds"
You do not need to delete the post in entirely but you are required to re-edit the post to contain only 25% of the original article and with a reference back to the original URL for forumers to read the remaining article. The original URL is: http://www.wilfredling.com/content/view/1616/9/
Kindly do so within 3 working days.
Wilfred
Date: 6 September 2009
Dear Sir,
It has come to my attention that one of your forum member 'Flyersummer' has been copying the entire articles from my website at http://www.wilfredling.com and posted them on your forum.
All articles on http://www.wilfredling.com are copyrighted unless explicitly stated otherwise. No part of the articles can be copied without explicitly permission.
For some articles, 'Flyersummer' had acknowledge the source of the article using the URL while for some there was completely no acknowledgement at all. The following are some of my articles copied (but they may not be exclusive):
http://www.sengkang.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=467732&highlight=#467732
http://www.sengkang.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=467731&highlight=#467731
http://www.sengkang.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=467729&highlight=#467729
http://www.sengkang.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=467726&highlight=#467726
If you would like to use some of these articles for the purpose of promoting your forum and/or increasing the traffic flow, I am open for further discussion. However, in the absence of such agreement, you are given 7 days to remove these postings otherwise legal action will be taken against you.
Regards,
Wilfred
