Design theft
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- Jabberjaw
Has anyone here ever successfully sued someone for ripping of one of their web designs?
- flickster0
I haven't, but I think anyone who blatantly rips someones design off, whether in print, or web... should be cut off at the knees.
- nburlington0
That's a tough one. What exactly do you sue for?
- Wolfboy0
I haven't, but I think anyone who blatantly rips someones design off, whether in print, or web... should be cut off at the knees.
flickster
(Sep 26 05, 06:10)cut off from the top down or from the ground up?
- Jager810
I think it would come down to defining if it was blantant or just similar. My sister's a lawyer, I'll have to ask her how that would work.
- tkmeister0
design copyright is really hard to protect. if one thing is different, then you can claim it is different and not a rip.
things are changing though. look at furniture design. i remember vitra won the case against the fake manufacturer.
- Jaline0
oooo your sister's a lawyer. get as much info from her as you can now.
I'm not sure if anyone from my family will be a lawyer (I have 4 siblings and I've got a gazillion cousins), but I know one of my friends will be, and I plan to learn as much as I can from them about this sorta stuff. Among other things.
- jevad0
"That's a tough one. What exactly do you sue for?
nburlington
(Sep 26 05, 06:17)"copyright infringement
- Jabberjaw0
I think most rip off site are quickly pulled offline once they’ve been discovered. But it seems that lately, these guys are getting BOLD.
Ripping off a website is weird thing to do in the first place. But refusing to take it down once you’ve been caught takes some serious sack.
- Garus0
How do you know who ripped off who or if the brief was just so close that the same solution was reached. I find the best thing to do is first confront the other person and try and work it out. Court is no fun any way you look at it. The copier will get there comeupins in time.
- nburlington0
"That's a tough one. What exactly do you sue for?
nburlington
(Sep 26 05, 06:17)"copyright infringement
jevad
(Sep 26 05, 07:34)But what do you have copyright for? The functionality, page composition, general "look and feel"?
- jevad0
The design!
- UndoUndo0
just shop them into shame. works quite well
- jox0
I have successfully ripped and made a decent living out of it for years.
- spendogg0
LOL @ jox
mee too
- Tad_Cautious0
are you talking about stylistically or complete rip off? did you get ripped off? if so, please share :)
- ********0
only after I give back all my fonts and mp3s
- ********0
I worked with a guy who was in the process of being sued by a design firm, not sure what happened though. Oddly enough the guy was a decent designer with a decade+ of experience and his own firm.
- macdadi0
I had a Web site design for a client utterly swiped, bit for bit, pixel for pixel, with word changes. The grotesque part was my client was not a design firm, but the people who stole the design were.
My client, who had deep pockets, sent out an immediate cease and desist, and the owner of the company who had stolen the designs immediately removed the offending Web site. I wanted to call them and scream at them, but client's counsel advised against any direct contact.
- Jabberjaw0
are you talking about stylistically or complete rip off? did you get ripped off? if so, please share :)
Tad_Cautious
(Sep 26 05, 15:28)You name it...
“We” are in the process of doing what we need to do from a legal standpoint, but I was hoping someone had a success story they could share with me to show me some light at the end of the tunnel.