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 <[email protected]> > >> >> >>> >>> >>> 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 [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > 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 [email protected] > e2 [email protected] > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Coworking" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > 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 [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/coworking?hl=en.
