Actually he is wrong - I know from work experience in the US and UK that anything released that you can prove is your own work is automatically your intellectual property and copyright ownership is therefore autmatically yours
He is in breach of implied copyright (a little different from actual copyright and admittedly harder to enforce) so the best way to deal with him is spread the word without slandering him. People are free to make up their own minds and will invariably igonre his work in the knowledge that some of it was actually stolen - people like him are looking for exposure but are not prepared to work for it, so give it to him
Were this not the case, then anything and everything on the Internet could be owned by anyone who chose to steal it, which of course we all know simply isnt the case LOL.
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This is from a very reliable source, and I know for a fact that he is being entirely honest with this. Link Here:
http://www.deezire.net/modules.php?n...t=3846&start=0