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Shadow / Milo Vlaovich -- copyright thief

Post by Sara Dooley » Sat Oct 23, 2010 4:20 pm

This website has Road Opener ideas that were "cut and paste" directly from this site as it is verbatim from the page. They give no credit to Cat but as the rest of the website seems to be in Russian maybe they forgot.

[deleted URL so as not to give the copyright thief one ounce of google goodness]

Sorry I didn't know if I should start another thread for this or not so feel free to move it to a more appropriate spot if need be. Thanks.
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Re: Shadow / Shadow333 / M. Vlaovich -- copyright thief

Post by catherineyronwode » Sat Oct 23, 2010 4:56 pm

On the page cited, attributed to Shadow, there are unauthorized quotes from my site including introductions to the Psalms of David and an old Scots-Irish prayer, and there is a credit, of sorts, to me: "Source of Psalm suggestions is Luckymojo site , as well as it’s source for the following prayer," which is not great, but better than nothing.

All the rest of it is Santeria material, pretty hashed up and probably copied from some other sites.

Thanks for telling me about this one. I will keep my eye on the site and on the copyright thief now....
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Re: Shadow / Shadow333 / M. Vlaovich -- copyright thief

Post by Devi Spring » Sat Oct 23, 2010 6:38 pm

If it's the same Shadow that I'm thinking of, they constantly post formulas and bits and pieces from all over the web to one particular online community. There is sometimes minor credit given to sources, but more often than not - not.
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Re: Shadow / Shadow333 / M. Vlaovich -- copyright thief

Post by catherineyronwode » Mon Oct 25, 2010 10:31 pm

I have found a name associated with the copyright thief known as Shadow: M. Vlaovich a.k.a. Milo Vlaovich.

Also i have found a throw-away email address: Shadow-333 (at) hotmail.com

Shadow / Shadow-333 / M. Vlaovich / Milo Vlaovich is a serious, dedicated copyright thief who is stealing writing and art from many people, not just me. I hope that anyone who cares for the real practitioners and proponents of these arts -- or who wants to see thieves outed and shunned in the magical community -- will take the time to point out, in every forum and at every site where Shadow / Shadow-333 / M. Vlaovich / Milo Vlaovich posts that these materials are STOLEN from others and do not in any way represent the learning or craft of the thief.

Devi, what is the name of the community where you see that Shadow / Shadow-333 / M. Vlaovich / Milo Vlaovich is posting? Let's not let this thief hide -- let's get this information out in public and all over the internet.

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Re: Shadow / Milo Vlaovich -- copyright thief

Post by catherineyronwode » Tue Oct 26, 2010 2:04 am

More information, courtesy of my friend Carin Huber, who also found this material online and sent me links by email:

Shadow-333 (at) hotmail.com / Shadow / M. Vlaovich / Milo Vlaovich claims to have an accomplice, namely his claimed "editor" Denise Alvarado / Voodoo Mama / Voodoomama

Several online pdfs by Shadow-333 (at) hotmail.com / Shadow / M. Vlaovich / Milo Vlaovich and his claimed "editor" Denise Alvarado / Voodoo Mama / VoodooMama contain multiple cases of plagiarism and copyright theft of my writing and my pictures as well as the writing and pictures of others, including Lara Rivera. These works were specifically copyright protected on each page when published, but Shadow-333 (at) hotmail.com / Shadow / M. Vlaovich / Milo Vlaovich and his claimed "editor" Denise Alvarado / VoodooMama / Voodoo Mama ignored the notices and he copied both Lara's images and my texts as his own.

Stealing the writing and images of others is against the law.

Shadow-333 (at) hotmail.com / Shadow / M. Vlaovich / Milo Vlaovich is a wretched, selfish, despicable person who subsists on borrowed fame by theft from sincere, honest, hard-working writers and photographers. The fact that he does this under the guise of promoting spirituality, folklore, religious practices, or magical arts is an eternal shame to him.

Denise Alvarado / VoodooMama / Voodoo Mama is the owner of a voodoo web site and is apparently an academic who is the editor of a magazine on hoodoo and voodoo, to which my husband ad i have a one year subscription. It is rather ublikely to think that she is the accomplice of Shadow-333 (at) hotmail.com / Shadow / M. Vlaovich / Milo Vlaovich -- a known and proven text thief, photo thief, and copyright thief.

He claims the relationship is that she is his "editor" -- and the stolen texts he has collected and published at a well-known bit-torrent pirate-hosting site bear this out.

Here is a sample of Milo Vlaovich's ugly habit of stealing -- a screenshot of his theft of my writing. My original text, which Shadow-333 (at) hotmail.com / Shadow / M. Vlaovich / Milo Vlaovich stole, is in red on "his" page, of which this is a screenshot:

http://herb-magic.com/magickcircle.foru ... -theft.jpg

Here is the same text on my page:

http://herb-magic.com/red-brick-dust.html
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Re: Shadow / Milo Vlaovich -- copyright thief

Post by Devi Spring » Tue Oct 26, 2010 6:59 am

Miss Denise has posted a response and explanation for her inclusion in Shadow's document as "editor" at her site.
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Re: Shadow / Milo Vlaovich -- copyright thief

Post by Turnsteel » Tue Oct 26, 2010 2:19 pm

And there we are, in so far as Miss Denise is concerned, it was all a mis-understanding. I thought as much, she has always represented herself as an ethical woman,and I had a hard time believing she was working as someones editor online, as well published as she is. In any case, perhaps it would be best to edit the post and thread title a bit to make it clear that no one is accusing her of plagiarizing or helping to plagiarize anyone?
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Re: Shadow / Milo Vlaovich -- copyright thief

Post by catherineyronwode » Wed Oct 27, 2010 11:04 pm

Turnsteel is correct. Denise Alvarado says she is not Milo's helper or editor.

Milio Vlaovich is not an innocent kid -- he is a 23 year old college student, according to his own self-description, and he stealing material left and right from many sources, not just me, and publishing it all over. For instance:

[URL deleted because why should i let google find it?]

contains a direct copy of my page

http://herb-magic.com/red-brick-dust.html

I have placed a screenshot of his infringing page here at my own site, after having filed a complaint with the forum site, so that in the event it is taken down, you will be able to see what i am talking about. Here is the screenshot:

http://herb-magic.com/magickcircle.foru ... -theft.jpg

The section in red, prefaced by the words, "Here is the standard procedure" is all my writing, from my page cited above.

Next, here is the text on the title page of one of Milo's books at scribd.com:

"Hoodoo Crossing, Uncrossing, and Protection
Text by me, Shadow ( M.Vlaovich ),
revised and edited kindly by VoodooMama
( Denise Alvarado ) Picture is from
“The Skeleton key” movie"

Here is a screenshot of the title page:

http://herb-magic.com/vlaovich-plagiari ... e-page.jpg

The book ends with this text:

"I can not express my gratitude enough to VoodooMama [her URL]
for all the help she kindly provided on writing this document , and correction of
same , making it more readable, reliable and trustworthy ."

And inside, it contains unauthorized use of my writing, for which no permission was ever sought.

The copyright thief, text thief, and photo image thief Milo Vlaovich has credited Denise Alvarado with helping him write his material, with editing it for him, and with revising it for him on multiple pages, multiple times.

It is obvious that Milo Vlaovich is victimizing me and a number of other writers and photographers by stealing from us.

Likewise, if Milo Vlaovich is misrepresenting Denise Alvarado, he is victimizing her by claiming that she has helped him write, revise, and edit his books of theft.

If Milo Vlaovich is a liar, and Denise neither helped him write nor edited his plagiarizing books, i hope that she will do whatever scribd requires in order to make him remove her name, remove the books, and delete his account. I will be glad to help in that endeavour, of course. The man is bad company for anyone, both those he steals from and those he claims as accomplices in his theft.

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Re: Shadow / Milo Vlaovich -- copyright thief

Post by catherineyronwode » Wed Oct 27, 2010 11:06 pm

I am very happy that Denise Alvarado has gotten the material at scribd removed on which a copyright thief had listed her name as editor and which contained plagiarism of my writing and the works of others.

THANK YOU, Denise!
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Re: Shadow / Milo Vlaovich -- copyright thief

Post by catherineyronwode » Thu Oct 28, 2010 12:00 am

Oh, creepy.

I searched my Lucky Mojo Forum site for the term "Alvarado" and found that one "Milo V" of Montenegro -- obviously Milo Vlaovich a.k.a. Shadow-- had plagiarized great swaths of Denise Alvarado's book on voodoo dolls, and well as Ray Malbrough's book "Charms, Spells, and Formulas" all over my place.

This is completely against my policy, as we do not allow cut-and-paste plagiarism at the Lucky Mojo Forum. However, we get more than 70 posts per day, so i cannot check every single post and his plagiarisms of their stuff had been there since December 2009. I am now deleting his "contributions" of Ray's and Denise's writing, and am only retaining the posts in which he asked questions or gave off-the-cuff opinions.
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Re: Shadow / Milo Vlaovich -- copyright thief

Post by Miss Bri » Thu Oct 28, 2010 6:04 am

I am glad that this is getting resolved! With that said, I would like to see the negative comments full of personal, specious attacks on cat and Lucky Mojo edited or removed from Denise's lovely blog all together and I have left a comment to that effect on Denise's blog--the bulk of those comments did not address the core issue of plagiarism at all and many of them are coming from envious, spiteful, hateful people who write whatever they want under the cloak of anonymity. One thing I have always admired about cat is that she doesn't let people get by with anonymity and I don't think letting those comments hang in cyberspace is good for any party involved.
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Re: Shadow / Milo Vlaovich -- copyright thief

Post by catherineyronwode » Thu Oct 28, 2010 9:34 am

Update:

I have banned the plagiarist and copyright thief Milo V / Shadow / Milo Vlaovich / miloradvlaovic from the Lucky Mojo Forum by his ip address, name, and email address. The ip address resolves to Montenegro, a Baltic nation that was at one time incorporated within Yugoslavia, then became part of the composite state of Serbia and Montenegro in the 1990s, and was returned to the status of an independent nation in 2006.

I get the impression from the email address that Milo used when signing up with this forum -- miloradvlaovic -- that his actual name is Milorad Vlaovic, and that the true spelling of his surname name is Vlaovic, with one of those little accent gizmos on the letter "c" like they have in the alphabets of various Eastern European nations, and that he phoneticized the spelling to Vlaovich, with an "h" at the end, to make it readable to people who use a conventional UK / US ascii alphabet-set online.

The word "Vlaovic" plugged into google's search box nets 66,000 page-results from all around the world, while the word "Vlaovich," with the Americanized "h" at the end, only gives 9,500 results, most of them relating to people of that name living in the USA who changed the spelling of the name.

His first name, Milorad, is a common one in Serbia and Montenegro. In America it is usually phoneticized to "Rod" -- as in the name of the former governor of Illinois, Milorad "Rod" Blagojevich, which would have been Milorad Blagojevic in Serbian-type spelling.

I mention these things in case this person reappears at anyone else's forums or blog sites in order to post plagiarisms. (And also because i like the study of language and orthograhy.)
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Re: Shadow / Milo Vlaovich -- copyright thief

Post by Macumba » Fri Oct 29, 2010 9:25 am

Off topic:

Dear Miss Cat, I just came across this thread and as being Serbian, I have to confess that I'm amazed by your knowledge of those things...

As I see that you're interested in this topic, here's how that surname is originally written Vlaović

We all have surnames that end with suffix , it's one of the most remarkable details about Serbian and/or Montenegro surnames, like Russians have surnames that end in ov, like Pavlov, Chekhov for example...

However, it be, I'm glad you banned the Intruder!!!

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Re: Shadow / Milo Vlaovich -- copyright thief

Post by Sara Dooley » Thu Nov 25, 2010 8:19 am

Sadly it looks like Shadow has more outlets. I can't tell if any of this material is stolen, so I'll just pass you the link
and you can be the judge. :evil:

http://magickcircle.forumotion.com/hoodoo-f85/

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Re: Shadow / Milo Vlaovich -- copyright thief

Post by Maljen » Thu Nov 25, 2010 8:16 pm

In the 'Hoodoo hexing' threat, he does state a copyright to Cat, however I'm pretty damn certain she did not give him permission to use her materials.
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Re: Shadow / Milo Vlaovich -- copyright thief

Post by aura » Mon Mar 14, 2011 1:32 pm

Looking for information and history of hoodoo on the internet, I regretfully came upon yet another outlet: this time in blog format. Here's the link in case anything can be done to stop the flow: [deleted; thanks for posting it. --cat]
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