Whilst working for an acute trust
(better know as a hospital), I produced some figures to show our performance against the government's target for 4 hour A&E waits. Very well received by the people upstairs (a colourful chart goes a long way).
A couple of months down the line, I had to ask the SHA (Strategic Health Authority, soon to be abolished, if the coalition has their way) for some data relating to 4 hour A&E waits. Lo and behold, I receive a copy of my own report, with my name replaced by someone else's. Oddly enough, it didn't really answer my question.
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Mon 27 Feb 2012, 20:09, 7 replies)

had a similar thing happen on a process modelling Visio sheet.
The dork put it in a power point document, changed the colors and rerouted it.

I knew, at least.
( BrokenCoccyx doesn't mind if you grope on, Mon 27 Feb 2012, 22:50, closed)

Hah.
On a smaller scale, I developed a spreadsheet years ago on Excel, which somewhat automated a notoriously tedious task that people have to do in the area of work I'm in.

It has been appropriated a few times by people. One time it popped up in a calculation I was looking at with someone from another company. I just casually commented that I was the person that originally developed it.

"No you didn't, it was our IT department that did this"

*click* File, properties, summary,

"Oh, looks like your IT department wrote my name in the 'Author' box, and my firm in the 'company' box. Isn't that a wierd coincidence?".
(username failed moderation, Tue 28 Feb 2012, 9:09, closed)

Ha ha!
pwned! (or whatever it is that the kids are saying nowadays)
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Tue 28 Feb 2012, 9:11, closed)

Nice!
I have a complicated Excel workbook to automate something. I've added an extra few lines of code that run, but don't actually do anything useful, apart from I will see them in there if it gets copied.
( M3rx likes the Asian ladies, Tue 28 Feb 2012, 9:34, closed)

I have a website with some obscure technology history on it
I went to several large companies' websites, to check my facts. On two of them - Sony and JVC - I found that their official company history pages had lifted large sections - in one case without changing the wording even slightly - from my website.
(moon monkey is busy making memories worth repressing, Tue 28 Feb 2012, 10:32, closed)

Not surprised
A mate designs webpages for a charity. In the early days of the Web, his predecessors used to physically print out the pages and the underlying source and put them in a box which would then be posted recorded delivery to the charity archive. Recorded deliveries have the date of posting, and if they're unopened are accepted by the courts as a original copyright. They can be resealed in court and still qualify for further cases.

Apparently, if you submit stuff to Jeffrey Archer's publishers your agent will insist you do this.
(all my scars face forward possesses 2.5% of a hyperalloy combat chassis, Tue 28 Feb 2012, 11:50, closed)

Not concerned about copyright
More that any inane dribblings or woeful misunderstandings I might have scrawled while drunk or tripping have become official history since they are on apparently authoritative sources.

Still, I guess that's a pretty good definition of the internet, really...
(moon monkey is busy making memories worth repressing, Tue 28 Feb 2012, 12:16, closed)