....thought theft.

If I were in the situation where someone had stolen my original ideas, I would not take too kindly to that, especially if this person were to gain monitarily from it. The appropriate form of action I suppose would to contact a lawyer specializing in these situations. I'm not ashamed to say it, I would try to get some money from that individual, because with thieves, the only way to hit back in a meaningful way is through the pocket book. The only way that someone could take my original ideas, other than anything I might have said aloud, is from anything I write online in my blog, on Face book, or in any emails I might send. With friends and family, the rules are a lot more relaxed on this, because I trust them not to use things against me or to profit and then not share any gains with me. However, if a complete stranger plagiarized my work, it would be a different story. I can see how difficult it would be to try and copyright something written on face book, or submitted to YouTube, etc. If it is willingly submitted publicly on a privately owned site, then the legal ownership of the content remains questionable. In my opinion, if someone were to submit a document to Wikipedia or a video to YouTube, then those sites should be required to seek permission to re submit the content to other sites. The way I see it, because you own the site, it doesn't mean you should have the only say as to where else the content should be submitted.