A few weeks went by and eventually the page was removed. Case closed from my point of view, although some people would say the offender got off too easy.

I'm willing to give them the benefit of the doubt. My hunch is that a certain percentage of bloggers don't understand what constitutes copyright infringement.

Do bloggers not understand the concept of copyright?

Perhaps because of the origins of blogging (people excerpting from and pointing to other blogs), unschooled bloggers think you can just cut and paste anything that takes your fancy. They don't understand that the correct way to quote another blog is provide a brief summary in your own words, and link to the source page where you got it (like I have done below with the reference to Josh Dorkin's article).

Here's an excellent step-by-step article for dealing with copyright infringments

My way of dealing with this offense was pretty casual. If I was more thorough, I would have followed the excellent procedure Josh Dorkin outlines in How to protect your website's copyright when someone steals your content. (via Problogger)

Josh gives a comprehensive step-by-step guide to how to determine if someone has stolen your content, and exactly what to do about it. You might want to save his article in case you ever need it. I hope you don't, but based on my experience it might happen sooner than you think.