Liu, I believe another company, In Good Company, located in NYC just had a similar issue. They approached it by trying to get in touch with the other company (locted in Ireland I think), and when that didn't work, they used social media. Here is a link to what happened/what they did: http://ingoodcompany.com/2010/12/lessons-learned-coming-to-terms-with-a-business-copycat/
Good luck! jes On Feb 1, 1:24 pm, Jeannine <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, there, > > I was just reading about this happening to an acquaintance here. For > him to was a blog post plagarism, he sent them an email and (when he > got no response) told everyone in the social media world. Sort of a > public shaming approach. It did work, they attributed the post right > away when word got out. > > I suspect both sites (for better or worse) got some big traffic > numbers out if it. Long term I don;t knwo what effect it will have. > But it is a thought. > > Jeannine > On Feb 1, 12:08 pm, Liu Yan <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > >> 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.
