My Website Was Cloned And I Can't Prove I Am Myself To Assert Copyright
Location: Iowa, United States
This is kind of a ridiculous situation. I have a website that is in the format firstnamelastname dot com and includes my name, biography and photo. It also includes a couple hundred blog posts that rank highly on Google.
When I was moving countries, the domain and hosting didn't renew since it was attached to my old credit card that got closed. By the time I had realized, someone had bought the domain. The annoying thing is they copied all of my content to their hosting, and removed all references to my email address. They also removed a couple posts that were linked elsewhere (e.g. on my LinkedIn) to prevent me from proving authorship. I have a Wayback Machine of the "about" page listing my email before they removed it, but that's about it.
My attempt to get the site delisted on Google is failing because they won't accept proof the content is mine, and the content doesn't exist anywhere else. Even though my photo is still on the site! It appears the domain is registered overseas according to WHOIS and uses Cloudflare as a CDN, so I've submitted an abuse report to them.
Legal Question(s): How do I assert copyright on my photo or other content I wrote?
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