[Sean S]

well I agree with the points you made Shelley, however, keep in mind that it would be very hard to control the situation if you have offered the style/script for free download or use, as you have no control over who so far has downloaded the stuff and what site he / she is using it at. This would only be helpful if you sold the product and have kept thorough record of each individual customer.

I for one, like to put my copyright/designed by cause I want people to know more about my work and what I'm capable of doing, however, I always give the option for customers to remove them with an additional cost.

What gets me worse is not that they remove the necessary copyrights, but they replace it with another copyright claiming that they have made it. Recently I had to file a lawsuit against a client of mine who not only violated all the copyrights that were mentioned in the contract, but also claimed that his company made everything.

Overall, this is something that is very hard/costly/and time consuming to control, which is sad but true.