Hi, It's more of a cease and desist thing I think. Because we are both in the same fields (jewellery sales etc). They popped up in our logs a bit, doing a bit more of tracking down, they were using images linked off our server (fools) but have now just copied them and not even renamed them.
I don�t think we need to make them pay for it, its more of a branding issue I believe. Thanks for your input guys. Sorry for the off topic post (and receipt request in original message). Regards, Paul De Audney -----Original Message----- From: Justin French [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 30 January 2004 10:52 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [WSG] What to do? On Friday, January 30, 2004, at 09:56 AM, Paul De Audney wrote: > Hi people, > > I was wondering if any one has encountered a situation where you are > aware of some one ripping parts of your code etc, design and colour > schemes and using them on a site competing in a similar field. > > Is there much I can do? Or should I just deal with it? > > (Yes I�m aware the company�s site is horribly non standards compliant) > � > > Regards, > > Paul De Audney Document the similarities, archive their code, try to prove copyright ownership (perhaps with back-up CDs, prior versions, etc), then call your Lawyer. Let him/her sort it out. If you don't own the site, then get the client to sort it out. Don't have a lawyer? What are you doing in this business then? :) Alternatively, you could email the offender (try to get straight to the top, not the webmaster), make them aware of the problem, and suggest that it might be settled without lawyers, and see what the response is. Quite often it's a rogue employee, and the management of the offending company has no idea what's going on. Obviously this approach is cheaper than Lawyers, but may be less effective. It depends what your aims are. If it's just a 'cease and desist', then try the latter, but if you want to make them hurt with copyright infringement, compensation, etc etc, then perhaps get the Lawyers in early, instead of given the offender a 'heads up' as to what you know. Justin French ***************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ ***************************************************** ***************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ *****************************************************
