Being locked out is a worrying response. A similar experience several years ago... I had just released (within 24 hours) a client's website. An original design / layout with a very nice pallette - hand coded. So within that one day my stats showed that someone had linked to the client's site, only when I went there it was a quite famous american web standards web design business - they'd taken that layout / design and the only thing changed was THEIR copyright in the footer.
My first response to the quite famous person who talks at conferences... and whom I otherwise respect. I sent an email politely asking for them to remove their copyright and could they please explain.
Reply... a polite email that said sorry but we only wanted to lift the pallette. And the site was thereafter locked behind a username password.
The frustrating thing about that is if I'd said nothing I could have watched it get pilfered then called them out on it publicly. As it was, I moved too fast as a reaction to the copyright they'd put on MY hard work.
So, I agree totally. The mark as private setting is just a way of hiding the crime from you and depriving you of any chance to rectify or even prove the case. As in my circumstance, if the guy only wanted the pallette then why lift the whole work and put their copyright onto it. I was just lucky some dumb schmuck had left the link in the footer back to the client's real website by accident.
It's a jungle... :)
Alan
· 1 year ago
Do you know if it is MySpace that is marking the pages private? What is most likely is that MySpace removes the copyrighted material and sends a notice to the page owner, who might be surprised or shocked and decides to make it private.
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My first response to the quite famous person who talks at conferences... and whom I otherwise respect. I sent an email politely asking for them to remove their copyright and could they please explain.
Reply... a polite email that said sorry but we only wanted to lift the pallette. And the site was thereafter locked behind a username password.
The frustrating thing about that is if I'd said nothing I could have watched it get pilfered then called them out on it publicly. As it was, I moved too fast as a reaction to the copyright they'd put on MY hard work.
So, I agree totally. The mark as private setting is just a way of hiding the crime from you and depriving you of any chance to rectify or even prove the case. As in my circumstance, if the guy only wanted the pallette then why lift the whole work and put their copyright onto it. I was just lucky some dumb schmuck had left the link in the footer back to the client's real website by accident.
It's a jungle... :)