Comments on: Design Thieves Part II

By: Piotr

Piotr — Mon, 17 Jul 2006 16:38:19 +0000

Come on Miles, words like “Staff mugshots” are common in style sheets… and copy right over style? we all use arial, 10pt.

Do you think they also use the “Bam Manifesto”? but with their own brand on it?

Cheers

By: Ashul

Ashul — Tue, 13 Jun 2006 02:48:14 +0000

With Regards to copyright – some lawyer did advise us to post this on our website http://www.eduka.com/Home/Copyright.aspx (this was 5 years ago) not sure if the content is still valid, we don’t read the small print do we?

Either that has worked for us or our design is so bad that no one has attempted to copy the site

Oh Pooh! do tell what the site it was..

By: Kay Smoljak

Kay Smoljak — Tue, 06 Jun 2006 12:50:26 +0000

Pooh? Thanks Pooh?

Throw the book at them, they deserve everything they get!

By: Miles

Miles — Tue, 06 Jun 2006 03:25:44 +0000

Thanks guys for your comments.

In Australia, the appearance of a copyright symbol or not is irrespective of the creative work still having copyright. Unlike many other countries, we do not need to lodge materials for copyright to take effect, it is simply first in, best dressed.

Note that copyright is quite different from patents, trademarks and designs.

By: Myles Eftos

Myles Eftos — Tue, 06 Jun 2006 02:56:18 +0000

INAL either, but I’m pretty sure copyright is implied. As long as you can prove who launched first, you are apples.

By: Ross

Ross — Tue, 06 Jun 2006 02:06:38 +0000

Yes agreed – very similar. I notice there is no copyright notice/statement in the comment at the top of the BAM CSS. Is that deliberate or an oversight?

I’m not a lawyer and don’t pretend to know anything about copyright law, but IFAIK inclusion of some sort of copyright statement in any original work would help some with the kind of legal action you appear to be heading down.