IFA websites canabalised by rival firms

Yellowtail Financial Planning, Fish Financial, ParaPlanPlus and at least two other IFA firms have found large amounts of their original material, which is protected under copyright, being used without permission on competing adviser firms' websites. In the case of ParaPlanPlus, the cut and paste reproduction even included the ParaPlanPlus name. Victims are advising all IFAs to use online copy detection tools such as copyscape.com to search for breaches. Intellectual property (IP) theft is expected by some advisers to become an increasing problem post-RDR as IFAs try to find differ...