http://www.b2blog.com/2007/04/web-design-stolen-property.html B2B and Industrial Marketing Blog Wed, 01 Feb 2012 10:09:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.b2blog.com/2007/04/web-design-stolen-property.html/comment-page-1#comment-682 Adam Tue, 17 Apr 2007 20:23:00 +0000 http://b2blogwp.wordpress.com/2007/04/14/web-design-stolen-property#comment-682 It’s important not to get too enamored with your own creations. There are not too many unique or completely original ideas, especially in our industry. :)</></>We've had our sites content used to varying degrees, from complete cut paste of the design and copy, to "borrowing" part of text. Even though it is flattering that people think highly enough of the material to take it as their own, it’s still frustrating. </></>Usually, the best approach is to keep level headed and look at each circumstance and evaluate how to respond. In one case, we had our lawyers send a cease and desist letter, but other times we've had good success contacting site owners directly and talking through the issues. </></>I don’t see this issue diminishing in the future. At least search engines are starting to take notice and not indexing copied sites! It’s important not to get too enamored with your own creations. There are not too many unique or completely original ideas, especially in our industry. We’ve had our sites content used to varying degrees, from complete cut paste of the design and copy, to “borrowing” part of text. Even though it is flattering that people think highly enough of the material to take it as their own, it’s still frustrating. Usually, the best approach is to keep level headed and look at each circumstance and evaluate how to respond. In one case, we had our lawyers send a cease and desist letter, but other times we’ve had good success contacting site owners directly and talking through the issues. I don’t see this issue diminishing in the future. At least search engines are starting to take notice and not indexing copied sites!

]]> http://www.b2blog.com/2007/04/web-design-stolen-property.html/comment-page-1#comment-2106 Adam Tue, 17 Apr 2007 20:23:00 +0000 http://b2blogwp.wordpress.com/2007/04/14/web-design-stolen-property#comment-2106 It’s important not to get too enamored with your own creations. There are not too many unique or completely original ideas, especially in our industry. :)We've had our sites content used to varying degrees, from complete cut paste of the design and copy, to "borrowing" part of text. Even though it is flattering that people think highly enough of the material to take it as their own, it’s still frustrating. Usually, the best approach is to keep level headed and look at each circumstance and evaluate how to respond. In one case, we had our lawyers send a cease and desist letter, but other times we've had good success contacting site owners directly and talking through the issues. I don’t see this issue diminishing in the future. At least search engines are starting to take notice and not indexing copied sites! It’s important not to get too enamored with your own creations. There are not too many unique or completely original ideas, especially in our industry. We’ve had our sites content used to varying degrees, from complete cut paste of the design and copy, to “borrowing” part of text. Even though it is flattering that people think highly enough of the material to take it as their own, it’s still frustrating. Usually, the best approach is to keep level headed and look at each circumstance and evaluate how to respond. In one case, we had our lawyers send a cease and desist letter, but other times we’ve had good success contacting site owners directly and talking through the issues. I don’t see this issue diminishing in the future. At least search engines are starting to take notice and not indexing copied sites!

]]> http://www.b2blog.com/2007/04/web-design-stolen-property.html/comment-page-1#comment-681 Hans Sun, 15 Apr 2007 10:13:00 +0000 http://b2blogwp.wordpress.com/2007/04/14/web-design-stolen-property#comment-681 This article is missing the point to some extent. There are fantastic web solutions available as open source, making it hard to make a claim on a content management system. But while the CMS is open source, installing it and tweaking it to an application still takes time, and this time needs to be covered somehow.</></>The look & feel of a website (theme) remains an issue though. While CMS such as drupal or wordpress offer a wide variety of themes, it remains hard to find a suitable one, and this is a problem for many web developers. And since a theme represents an organisation's house-style, and belongs to its branded market presence, it should not be in the public domain if the organisation does not want it to be.</></>The legal issues surrounding this can be daunting, but in practice, being polite, and asking permission, even when sites have a Creative Commons licencing policy avoids most of the problems. This article is missing the point to some extent. There are fantastic web solutions available as open source, making it hard to make a claim on a content management system. But while the CMS is open source, installing it and tweaking it to an application still takes time, and this time needs to be covered somehow.The look & feel of a website (theme) remains an issue though. While CMS such as drupal or wordpress offer a wide variety of themes, it remains hard to find a suitable one, and this is a problem for many web developers. And since a theme represents an organisation’s house-style, and belongs to its branded market presence, it should not be in the public domain if the organisation does not want it to be.The legal issues surrounding this can be daunting, but in practice, being polite, and asking permission, even when sites have a Creative Commons licencing policy avoids most of the problems.

]]> http://www.b2blog.com/2007/04/web-design-stolen-property.html/comment-page-1#comment-2105 Hans Sun, 15 Apr 2007 10:13:00 +0000 http://b2blogwp.wordpress.com/2007/04/14/web-design-stolen-property#comment-2105 This article is missing the point to some extent. There are fantastic web solutions available as open source, making it hard to make a claim on a content management system. But while the CMS is open source, installing it and tweaking it to an application still takes time, and this time needs to be covered somehow.The look & feel of a website (theme) remains an issue though. While CMS such as drupal or wordpress offer a wide variety of themes, it remains hard to find a suitable one, and this is a problem for many web developers. And since a theme represents an organisation's house-style, and belongs to its branded market presence, it should not be in the public domain if the organisation does not want it to be.The legal issues surrounding this can be daunting, but in practice, being polite, and asking permission, even when sites have a Creative Commons licencing policy avoids most of the problems. This article is missing the point to some extent. There are fantastic web solutions available as open source, making it hard to make a claim on a content management system. But while the CMS is open source, installing it and tweaking it to an application still takes time, and this time needs to be covered somehow.The look & feel of a website (theme) remains an issue though. While CMS such as drupal or wordpress offer a wide variety of themes, it remains hard to find a suitable one, and this is a problem for many web developers. And since a theme represents an organisation’s house-style, and belongs to its branded market presence, it should not be in the public domain if the organisation does not want it to be.The legal issues surrounding this can be daunting, but in practice, being polite, and asking permission, even when sites have a Creative Commons licencing policy avoids most of the problems.

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