I agree with you Jerome, my designer was pretty upset to see the icons he designed for our product and service being taken just like that and used under someone else's name. He even told us someone offered him a job to design a coworking website "just like" ours!
But contacting each of the clones to urge them to change their copy or design is going to be an everlasting battle, apparently it is not going to stop everyone else, so we have to think a bit bigger to regulate these copying and make everyone benefit from it. 在 2011年2月2日 上午12:59，Jerome Chang <jer...@blankspaces.com> 写道： > You know, I've encountered this quite a few times now in my 3 years of > operation. I've simply contacted the owner to revise their copy or design > and most have complied. They know when they're being > unprofessional/unethical. There was one time someone even flagrantly copied > the WorkBar my team personally designed. > Look, I'm all for open source, but some of us do spend some serious sweat > and actual equity for marketing and design, and on behalf of those of us, we > would appreciate that others at least respect that effort enough to > demonstrate some professional ethics. > > Jerome > ______________ > BLANKSPACES > "work FOR yourself, not BY yourself" > > www.blankspaces.com > 5405 Wilshire Blvd (2 blocks west of La Brea) > Los Angeles, CA 90036 > 323.330.9505 (office) > On Feb 1, 2011, at 8:43 AM, Dave Bunnell wrote: > > Hello, > > Meaning no disrespect: here, stateside, we hear constantly in (our) > national-daily-news that copyright infringement of every-kind is of national > proportion where you are in China. Perhaps the norm rather than the > exception? > > Although not helpful, I'm sure all of us here are sensitive to your plight > and would wonder: Just how you do deal with this impact at every level? I'm > sure from Freelancer to Coworker, we would love know more about what that > world is like for you. I would guess we approach this topic with a certain > naivete. > > But? From our perspective, we would, of course, not have the same frame of > reference that you do. And for every 'Independent' working in any country, > protecting who you are and what you have . . . or what you create, is always > top-of-mind. This becomes true, even when, we, any of us, arrive with a > collaborative spirit. > > Thank you, > > Dave B. > : : : : : : : : > > 2011/2/1 Liu Yan <liuyan.dat...@gmail.com> >> >> >> >> >> >> Hi there, >> Recently we found out that someone in Beijing has used the text of our >> website both in Chinese and English, design and slogan literally word for >> word in his website. We are happy that there is another(second) coworking >> space being established in China and they like our model. But at the same >> time, we think it should be a way to regulate this kind of "sharing". >> For example, Our model and content on the website is at this moment pretty >> much open sourced and licensed under Creative Commons, but the people who >> copied and pasted our content put everything under their own >> copyright. Meanwhile, we are worried that this kind of clone or look-alike >> effect might put our branding and reputation under risk. >> Any idea how to cope with this? >> Liu Yan 刘妍 >> CEO/Co-founder >> Xindanwei 新单位 >> (+86) 021 3428 0783 >> (+86) 135 2429 5509 >> 50 Yongjia Rd, Shanghai,CHINA >> 中国上海徐汇区永嘉路50号 >> http://xindanwei.com >> https://gist.com/theliuyan >> >> >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Coworking" group. >> To post to this group, send email to coworking@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> coworking+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/coworking?hl=en. > > > > -- > : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : > > Dave Bunnell > Dream Team Consortium > p 603.321.6568 > e1 dfbunn...@gmail.com > e2 d...@dtcteam.com > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Coworking" group. > To post to this group, send email to coworking@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > coworking+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/coworking?hl=en. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Coworking" group. > To post to this group, send email to coworking@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > coworking+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/coworking?hl=en. > -- Liu Yan 刘妍 CEO/Co-founder Xindanwei 新单位 (+86) 021 3428 0783 50 Yongjia Rd, Shanghai,CHINA 中国上海徐汇区永嘉路50号 http://xindanwei.com https://gist.com/theliuyan -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Coworking" group. To post to this group, send email to coworking@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to coworking+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/coworking?hl=en.
