Some one stole my site Design!!!

[Gonzo]

Some one has stole my site desing!!
my web site is http://www.phprank.f2s.com then this guy, he does post here but I am not going to say who it is unless you know who I am talking about you will not know him. but any way he asked me to desing a site for him, he asked it to look like my site, then I said no that I would not make him a site that looked like mine but I would make him another one. Then he told me to nevermind and he would make a site of his own. then the next day I go to his site,
witch is http://supportplanet.datablocks.net/ then I seen that he has stole my design.

What can I do about this?
I have e-mailed his host about this too
Thanks verty much for any help you can give me!

[Technics]

hehehe our friend Alex strikes again....

I suggest emailing john@datablocks.net and inform him of what happened. John may ask him to take the design down or suspend his account. Thats about all you can do.

[keith]

someone did this to me as well, with my old college site:

http://keith.wzr.net

their site, http://www.busilab.com gave acknowledgment to my site, but then stuck "© Busilab" at the bottom. i wouldn't mind it so much, but they never even asked. wtf?

[Technics]

ur version is much better keith.

[keith]

i know.

hehe, thanks.

[jiminsd]

Gee.. he didn't even try to change the color.

[Gonzo]

Originally posted by Technics
hehehe our friend Alex strikes again....

I suggest emailing john@datablocks.net and inform him of what happened. John may ask him to take the design down or suspend his account. Thats about all you can do.

Thanks for your help, also I have e-mail john about this, but not respons yet.

[Technics]

Gonzo - You will be very lucky if anything is done about it. You should see the amount of sites that are carbon copys of other sites.

But if i was you id re-design your page.

[Gonzo]

Hey all,
I am getting closet to getting him to take down the design I think, any way I was talking to John and he said that he wanted proff that Alex stole my design form me. So if any of you have been to my site befoure and seen that design before and you would like to tell John please do so. Alex just posted that design up yesterday.

Thanks

[LeX]

proff? you meant, proof, didn't you?
Personally, I don't think you can do a thing about others stealing your design, I mean, all that Alex dude has to do is load it up somewhere else, and he'll still have your design.

Like Technics said, I'd redesign my page if I were you.

[S0ulTr4nc3]

Unfortunetly I have had this happen to me before, and theres really nothing you can do about it unless the host's pays attention. I was lucky because I had helped the web master of the hosting site the person that stole my design was using, so I talked to the web master and the site was gone within a day. Weither or not It just moved somewere else's I'll never know.

I recommend that you either change your design or give this guy a shout and at least request that he give you some credit and a link for the design.

Anyways, good luck man.

[}:8) Supermoo]

Sue him! Sue him good! Damn copyright infringement! :)

[Nick]

Only works if it's registered SM :(. I say register it for $30 and then sue his sorry --- for $10,030 :).

[LeX]

But wouldn't you have to pay another $30 every time you change your design?

So it's possible for a guy from, say, Iceland to sue someone from another place like Cambodia?! (even tho this might not be the case...)

[Technics]

Nope dont think it's $30 per time. Might be $30 a year though

[LeX]

personally, I don't think it's worth the money.

[}:8) Supermoo]

Where did all this $30 come from? Copyright is instantly placed on anything you produce in the United States, Australia and a few other countries. For free.

So sue him! Sue him now! ;)

If you have witnesses' and other proof along with e-mailing him and his host without it working. It should stand up in court. well. :)

[LeX]

ahh... now that's the hard part! Finding proof! How're you supposed to find PROOF?!

[Robert]

Originally posted by Nick
Only works if it's registered SM :(. I say register it for $30 and then sue his sorry --- for $10,030 :).


Actually no. You don't need to register it. The law cleary states that anything created by a person is automically copyrighted. Registering it will help you in court if you do decide to sue. But you still can sue w/o registering it. I wasn't aware of it until a friend showed me it. I don't have the link with me since I am at school.

[Rodie]

Be careful as to not confuse trademarking with copyrighting. They are two entirely different things.

[}:8) Supermoo]

Originally posted by robert

Originally posted by Nick
Only works if it's registered SM :(. I say register it for $30 and then sue his sorry --- for $10,030 :).


Actually no. You don't need to register it. The law cleary states that anything created by a person is automically copyrighted. Registering it will help you in court if you do decide to sue. But you still can sue w/o registering it. I wasn't aware of it until a friend showed me it. I don't have the link with me since I am at school.

Finaly someone backs me up! :)

[Nick]

Look people. When I was into eWrestling I had different designs stolen five times. Well finally, I had someone steal the NAME of my site which was unique and uncommon. I talked to one of the local lawyers (cost me $50 :() and he said that you have to have it registered to sue him. Well I didn't believe it either. SO. I emailed GeoCities and they emailed me back. Unless you have the registered copyright papers they cannot remove his site. So you can imagine how pissed I was, not to mention I was out $50 :(.

And no, it's $30 for a registered copyright and that lasts for (I'm pretty sure) 99 years. After that it's not copyrighted. I dunno if you can renew it or not.

[}:8) Supermoo]

To put it simply...


Originally posted by Nick
it's $30 for a registered copyright

...which is a bit annoying. Hey Nick, pay the lawyers $5000 and I'm sure your basic automated copyright would be just fine and dandy! ;)

[Rodie]

Originally posted by Nick
Look people. When I was into eWrestling I had different designs stolen five times. Well finally, I had someone steal the NAME of my site which was unique and uncommon. I talked to one of the local lawyers (cost me $50 :() and he said that you have to have it registered to sue him. Well I didn't believe it either. SO. I emailed GeoCities and they emailed me back. Unless you have the registered copyright papers they cannot remove his site. So you can imagine how pissed I was, not to mention I was out $50 :(.

And no, it's $30 for a registered copyright and that lasts for (I'm pretty sure) 99 years. After that it's not copyrighted. I dunno if you can renew it or not.

You're confusing trademarks with copyrights. The name of your site is something that has to be TRADEMARKED if you don't want somebody else use it. Trademarking is not the same thing as copyrighting. Trademark has to do with the name of a company, and copyright has to do with written material. Trademarking costs money (and that would be the registration process like above), but copyright doesn't. Anything you publish is copyrighted, and you don't even have to have a copyright disclaimer on your site.