Someone COPIED my entire site on Google- what should I do?

[TBKO]

I purchased a very high ranked and old site a year or so ago.  Now it appears that the people I purchased from completely copied the site all graphics and content.

They have now built that site up high in rankings and I dont want it to compromise my site.

These sites look like mirror images of each other

What can I do?

[EGOL]

When you purchased the site, did you obtain a document that gave you exclusive use of the content?

If they are creators of the content they can sell it many times unless the first buyer got an exclusive license to the content.  For all we know they might have stolen the content from someone.

I am not an intellectual property attorney.  You might contact one if you paid a lot for the site and want to get the best information about your options.

[TBKO]

Actually I could care less about the use of the content but I am worried about google thinking we copied the content and removing our site.

Purchased from kids in Usbeq anyway so no contract would help.

So that is my worry- can we be penalized if Google does not realized who copied from who?

[EGOL]

The site with the most authority will have the advantage.  If google finds the duplicates and recognizes them, one site could be filtered from the SERPs for some queries... or as in the Panda update, there could be a sitewide reduction in rankings.