If you have made your model and content on the website is at this
moment pretty much open sourced and licensed under Creative Commons
then i am pretty sure they can't legally copyright it right? This may
be the wrong place to be asking though because copyright in China is
definitely different to
Coworking isn't a big money-making business. I believe the person who
started the coworking in Beijing has no intention to make quick money
and huge profit. So it really doesn't make any sense to consult a
lawyer to sue him. To be honest, we can't even afford it.
I believe there is a dialogue
Whatever makes you comfortable.
It's my understanding that cloning is a fairly common element of Asian
culture (Dave Troy can speak to this much better than I can) so the best
thing you can do is draw boundaries for what elements of the clone are
acceptable to your level of comfort. That's really
Alex, thank you for your suggestion. We are aware of the core
competency of the business we are in and we are confident that is
something that cannot be copied easily.
I think my message isn't clearly understood. We are not worried about
the copycats, nor feel any threat, actually the clone has
Liu Yan,
Just throwing this out there but maybe one way to do it is to encourage copying
and request some conditions from those who do copy.
One example is TED: they have given away their brand but ask that folks follow
the rules for TEDx events in exchange. Maybe you could do something
TEDx is indeed a good model to learn from, thank you for reminding me
about this, Dave! :)
在 2011年2月2日 上午12:03，David Troy davet...@roundhousetech.com 写道：
Liu Yan,
Just throwing this out there but maybe one way to do it is to encourage
copying and request some conditions from those who do
If I may chime in on this point, I see COWORKING as something that
produces value other than money. I think a lot of the problem with our
current economic condition is the fact that everybody thinks that if
they start doing something, as in providing a service or product, they
are supposed to
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
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:
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