Perhaps one approach is to harness the community aspect to communicate some displeasure with the copying. I don't anticipate one boss making headway with another via email, but many other people also saying "hey" might do the trick. The issue isn't coworking but the using of design. I myself am thinking of opening some cowork effort on China but won't use others designs. All I found was Beijingcoworking.com but it didn't seem to the culprit. So what is the URL? Shane On 2011-02-01, at 12:27 PM, Liu Yan <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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 <[email protected]> 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 <[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. >> > > > > -- > 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 [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. 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