I can understand Maedin's reaction. When your work is 'taken over' by someone, it is cataclysmic. Yesterday is too late for a redressal. It should have never happened at all.
In this internet age copy right protect is exhausting. One either has to eat more to find the energy to run behind your work, or one gives up entirely on it turning paranoid and from then on keeping future creations under double lock and key where they turn stale and old for the lack of air.