Designers: What do you do when you find a forum that removed your copyright?

[Imad Jomaa]

@ Judel. As said in many posts back, some of us work quite a lot on them. The better the graphics, complexity, usability, and design, the more time we've put into our works. I agree and disagree with you; yes, text in the footer can get annoying. However, not many plug-ins require links in the footer. I would like the users of my creations to leave a link back to my site for back-linking and that's all I ask. Some of my works don't require links back and some of them do. If a user of my works wants to remove the copyright from the footer they can pm me and I can discuss a way of doing so without any charge. I don't think using something is showing appreciation in this category. Someone is using it because he/she needs it and not to show appreciation. Appreciation is noting and giving credit to the designer/creator. Hence, the link back to Mybb, plug-in creators, and theme designers. If Mybb gave us the choice to remove the copyright link, do you think most of them here haven't done it already?
Kind Regards.