Comments on: Copyright All Access Today?

By: Brian

Brian — Thu, 26 May 2005 00:03:23 +0000

Sorry you got ripped dude…Wade is cool. Too bad his ‘designers’ arn’t…

By: Ryan

Ryan — Wed, 18 May 2005 10:48:36 +0000

Well, if one believes it was a free background service, where is it explained why all of these images fit into a design that nearly mirrors your site?

By: Jason Beaird

Jason Beaird — Sun, 15 May 2005 16:07:31 +0000

Yea, Chris is the one who I’ve been emailing…the guy whose “Junior Developer” found this mysterious public forum for free backgrounds. First off, real web-design companies don’t use “free background sources”. Those are for personal projects and more specifically those that aren’t making a profit off the design work. Perhaps I am being a little too kind, but I’m not looking for any kind of gain from this. …although, I have gained a few friends and a CD from this whole thing. :) I just want him to know that he can’t pass something that isn’t his off as his own. The web design community isn’t all that large. If you do that kind of crap, you’re going to get caught red handed.

By: mean

mean — Sun, 15 May 2005 05:50:11 +0000

I think you are right in the actions you are taking… possibly being a little to kind to the folks who stole your design. The reason I say this is that it’s not the first time we have seen them use either templates or stolen work and passed it off as their own. Even using the same templates/stolen work for several of their clients at the same time. I mean… you have to wonder how legit or even talented a “web designer” can be when his buttons on his own site seem to never work… niiiiice check out http://www.guggenheimweb.com/# it’s the same guy. Chris Guggenheim…

By: Jason Beaird

Jason Beaird — Sat, 14 May 2005 16:18:21 +0000

Things definitely have calmed down quite a bit. I went over and made an appearence in the "Copied Website?" thread of the Galley Winter forums, and all I got was positive feedback. One of the admins there even offered to mail me one of Wade's CDs. Before Danny (from the forum) contacted me, I figured everybody over there felt the same way as the first few commenters here. It's good to know that EVERYBODY doesn't think I'm being jerk about this.

By: Justin Perkins

Justin Perkins — Fri, 13 May 2005 23:49:34 +0000

Things seem to be cleared up, at least from an outside perspective. It was nice to see all the positive support you gained over at the Wade Bowen discussion forums.

As to getting the image of a free gallery of images, come on. If that’s not a cop-out, I don’t know what is. First, blame it on a Junior Developer, then say they got the image from a free image forum…yeah right.

How is Wade going to feel about paying good money for a site that was designed by a junior developer? Hmmm, I wouldn’t be too happy.

By: Ray

Ray — Fri, 13 May 2005 21:08:17 +0000

Wow. Real scumbags… Sorry to hear about your stuff getting ripped off like that Jason. And then for them to spit in your face by only slightly changing your graphics after you’ve made their misdeeds public. Is there nothing else you can do besides link them here on your site or even Pirated Sites?

If it makes you feel better, I wish I were half as good as you so people considered stealing MY stuff!

By: Jason Beaird

Jason Beaird — Fri, 13 May 2005 17:36:14 +0000

Well, they've run "their" background image through some filters now and used their default Photoshop texture brushes to further desecrate my original graphic. Great Job Guys! I could create a background image that would actually look good with their site in less than 30 minutes of my time if they'd be willing to pay my freelance rate. This is ridiculous.

By: Brian

Brian — Fri, 13 May 2005 16:46:02 +0000

I don’t understand why people who charge for their work, think they can just copy soneone else’s work. That’s totally not acceptable, not in graphic design and not in programming. Even when I do my own web site, if I need a design, I don’t go looking at sites made by paid designers, I look through the listings of people willing to give their design away (b/c I can’t pay a graphic designer and don’t have the time to do the site myself).

Why do people think you can just rip things from websites? If the site doesn’t say they are giving away the design, then you can’t rip it. It’s still very obvious where the offending site acquired their background and if you look at the other links on their site you will find the original with the hue changed. That is not acceptable, the change is not significantly different.

By: Jason Beaird

Jason Beaird — Fri, 13 May 2005 16:17:48 +0000

I wouldn’t have even known about this whole thing if it were not for a random kind person from Texas that emailed me to say my site was being “ripped pretty bad”. When I get up in the morning and go to work, website design is what I do. If you want to tell me you don’t like this site, that’s fine with me…but don’t try to convince me that the site in question is not a rippoff of my design. And no, it hasn’t “changed now anyway”.

Justin, I haven’t entered it in at Pirated-Sites. I’m going to email AllAccessToday and give them a chance to change the site. Otherwise, I might.