Comments on: Simple Tips To Prevent And Deal With Content And Design Theft http://spyrestudios.com/prevent-and-deal-with-content-design-theft/ Web-Design And Inspiration Blog Fri, 30 Jul 2010 04:05:51 +0000 hourly 1 By: Sophie http://spyrestudios.com/prevent-and-deal-with-content-design-theft/#comment-13753 Sophie Tue, 02 Mar 2010 00:36:01 +0000 http://spyrestudios.com/?p=6310#comment-13753 It's amazing what people think they can get away with. Not good! Sophie www.easysongsforbeginnersguitar.com It’s amazing what people think they can get away with. Not good!

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]]> By: BeN http://spyrestudios.com/prevent-and-deal-with-content-design-theft/#comment-12273 BeN Mon, 18 Jan 2010 10:17:10 +0000 http://spyrestudios.com/?p=6310#comment-12273 Thanks for yet another awesome article Jon! I don't come here as much as i WANT to but, you ALWAYS have quality content and articles that we can start using "right off the bat" Keep it up! Thanks for yet another awesome article Jon!

I don’t come here as much as i WANT to but, you ALWAYS have quality content and articles that we can start using “right off the bat”

Keep it up!

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]]> By: DesignLovr http://spyrestudios.com/prevent-and-deal-with-content-design-theft/#comment-11637 DesignLovr Sat, 26 Dec 2009 15:46:54 +0000 http://spyrestudios.com/?p=6310#comment-11637 Great article! I really enjoyed that you talked about ways to prevent theft instead of just talking how to react once you have been ripped off. The idea with the image that is displayed to hot-linkers is awesome as well! Nowadays many hosts also offer an automatic hotlinking protection. Great article!
I really enjoyed that you talked about ways to prevent theft instead of just talking how to react once you have been ripped off.
The idea with the image that is displayed to hot-linkers is awesome as well! Nowadays many hosts also offer an automatic hotlinking protection.

]]> By: thelogo http://spyrestudios.com/prevent-and-deal-with-content-design-theft/#comment-11630 thelogo Sat, 26 Dec 2009 05:52:27 +0000 http://spyrestudios.com/?p=6310#comment-11630 Wow amazing info! I will definitely check out the myows site. I am a freelance designer of logos and such i think this is great for anything web related. Wow amazing info! I will definitely check out the myows site.
I am a freelance designer of logos and such i think this is great for anything web related.

]]> By: Marc http://spyrestudios.com/prevent-and-deal-with-content-design-theft/#comment-11438 Marc Sun, 20 Dec 2009 14:05:14 +0000 http://spyrestudios.com/?p=6310#comment-11438 My site template has been stolen 4 times now that I know of, once even by a designer. It puzzles me because the code is really messy and antiquated. I decided to blog about them, making a category called "Wall Of Shame" where I put up screen shots. I caught the last one in the act and have I think 4 screen shots of the progress of the theft up in that post. It's such a basic template, surely inspired from many of the commercial portfolio templates out there. But I made that myself, and people are swiping the graphics and code. If they made one just like mine but on their own, I wouldn't even know about it nor would I care if I did. It's pulling content off my site for their commercial use that bothers me. I decided to just blog about them as they happen. The only time I've contacted any of them directly was when they left the analytics code in and it was fouling up my stats. Told him "next time you steal a site, have the decency to remove the original owner's analytics code so it doesn't mess up their stats" and he had the nerve to email back and say "Done, thanks!" or something like that, lol. Nobody called or emailed me before my stuff was stolen, so I don't feel the same duty to kind of sweep this under the rug. Besides, from friends that this has happened to where they've actually contacted the offender, it's always some excuse as to why it happened and it's not their fault. My site template has been stolen 4 times now that I know of, once even by a designer. It puzzles me because the code is really messy and antiquated. I decided to blog about them, making a category called “Wall Of Shame” where I put up screen shots. I caught the last one in the act and have I think 4 screen shots of the progress of the theft up in that post.

It’s such a basic template, surely inspired from many of the commercial portfolio templates out there. But I made that myself, and people are swiping the graphics and code. If they made one just like mine but on their own, I wouldn’t even know about it nor would I care if I did. It’s pulling content off my site for their commercial use that bothers me.

I decided to just blog about them as they happen. The only time I’ve contacted any of them directly was when they left the analytics code in and it was fouling up my stats. Told him “next time you steal a site, have the decency to remove the original owner’s analytics code so it doesn’t mess up their stats” and he had the nerve to email back and say “Done, thanks!” or something like that, lol. Nobody called or emailed me before my stuff was stolen, so I don’t feel the same duty to kind of sweep this under the rug.

Besides, from friends that this has happened to where they’ve actually contacted the offender, it’s always some excuse as to why it happened and it’s not their fault.

]]> By: Jon(athan) Phillips http://spyrestudios.com/prevent-and-deal-with-content-design-theft/#comment-11429 Jon(athan) Phillips Sat, 19 Dec 2009 21:38:42 +0000 http://spyrestudios.com/?p=6310#comment-11429 Great article, very useful, spooky actually; just read one on the same topic over on Smashing Mag! Does anyone have any thoughts / comments on where inspiration ends and outright copying begins, and what role intention has to play? Of course nicking source / css / images, scraping content and hotlinking to files is bang out of order but... Case in point: I was making a simple little WP theme for a friend, spent a few hours on it then sat back and realised that a large chunk was very similar to Woorkup.com's design. Of course things like colour and dimension were different (full width, dark header etc.) but lot of things like font styles were the same and it even had a (blue) bar with a list of categories in 11px arial white. It was close enough that with a few tweaks in Firebug I made it look very reminiscent of Woorkup. I was less than happy with myself so binned it, even though I had not conciously copied the other site and had no intention to ever do so. I visit woorkup every couple of weeks so that must be where my brain got it all from. So could I resurrect the design with a clean conscience, or would that still amount to (unintentional) theft of another's design? There are so many site out there know classed as 'inspiration' resources, and of course that's how the latest design fads spread (Bokeh anyone?), so can designers be accused if theft if their work comes out very similar to anothers? Great article, very useful, spooky actually; just read one on the same topic over on Smashing Mag!

Does anyone have any thoughts / comments on where inspiration ends and outright copying begins, and what role intention has to play? Of course nicking source / css / images, scraping content and hotlinking to files is bang out of order but…

Case in point: I was making a simple little WP theme for a friend, spent a few hours on it then sat back and realised that a large chunk was very similar to Woorkup.com’s design. Of course things like colour and dimension were different (full width, dark header etc.) but lot of things like font styles were the same and it even had a (blue) bar with a list of categories in 11px arial white.

It was close enough that with a few tweaks in Firebug I made it look very reminiscent of Woorkup. I was less than happy with myself so binned it, even though I had not conciously copied the other site and had no intention to ever do so. I visit woorkup every couple of weeks so that must be where my brain got it all from.

So could I resurrect the design with a clean conscience, or would that still amount to (unintentional) theft of another’s design?

There are so many site out there know classed as ‘inspiration’ resources, and of course that’s how the latest design fads spread (Bokeh anyone?), so can designers be accused if theft if their work comes out very similar to anothers?

]]> By: Oklahoma City Lawyers http://spyrestudios.com/prevent-and-deal-with-content-design-theft/#comment-11409 Oklahoma City Lawyers Sat, 19 Dec 2009 10:57:08 +0000 http://spyrestudios.com/?p=6310#comment-11409 If I found that someone was stealing something I had created, I wouldn't allow it to go down quietly, I'd make the biggest ruckus I possibly could and let everyone I know in on it. If I found that someone was stealing something I had created, I wouldn’t allow it to go down quietly, I’d make the biggest ruckus I possibly could and let everyone I know in on it.

]]> By: linko http://spyrestudios.com/prevent-and-deal-with-content-design-theft/#comment-11380 linko Fri, 18 Dec 2009 22:20:20 +0000 http://spyrestudios.com/?p=6310#comment-11380 awesome stuff awesome stuff

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