Completely Ripped Off Design
By: Brett
I am sure this is a problem for anyone that has had a design featured on CSS galleries. People will take those designs and just rip them completely. They don’t bother changing any part of the site, except a simple logo adjustment. It’s one thing to take a design and use it as influence, but when you completely rip a design and then take credit for the items in that portfolio, that crosses the line. Usually these rips are from firms/designers outside of the US, which makes it impossible to pursue any legal action. Luckily for me, this tool is homegrown.
The Fake BrettNyquist.com
The Original Portfolio Design
This douche even felt like ripping my resume. Copied the objective and modified one of my job positions to reflect his own. The reason why people like this disgust me is the fact they are using someone elses work to get more clients, apply for jobs. I don’t have as much of a problem with this tool completely ripping the design and resume as I do with him taking credit for the work that I have done. There really needs to be an easier way to exploit these designers and easier legal action to attack them. Luckily for me, one of the sites he wishes to take credit for, is a local law firm that would be more than willing to help me out in possible action.
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“Completely Ripped Off Design”
June 15th, 2008 at 4:57 pm
that really sucks… i hope you can do something about it.
have you ever designed for movable type? i need a template for a new blog.
June 17th, 2008 at 6:12 pm
This is just hillarious, I can’t believe people do this. Of course people get inspiration from others, but I agree, this is a whole new low.
When designing, I almost always look to other pieces for influence.
Usually when I’m using ideas from something I like, the end result ends up being completely different anyways.
btw,I love your comment and response field designs, some of the coolest I’ve seen.
June 27th, 2008 at 9:19 am
wow that guy nice work, maybe i should get him 2 finish my blog?!?! heehee
August 15th, 2008 at 12:21 pm
Yeah. The same thing JUST happened to us. We had a copywriter help out with the content on our site, and when she went to go post to a job, she was told her work was a rip-off. She checked out the supposed “original” work - and it was some guy tottaly ripping us off! Word for word! One guy only stole our content, but he didn’t bother to change the “We” to “I”.
Here’s a picture of our site:
http://yeago.net/media/photologue/photos/eai_.jpg
And here’s a picture of Rip-Off:
http://yeago.net/media/photologue/photos/marketreach.jpg
My friend wrote about the same thing that happened to us: http://yeago.net/2008/aug/13/you-might-be-a-victim-of-copyright-infringement/