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Re: How to properly plagiarize a website

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Post by Smudge »

shelltreader wrote: post #83
mintplant wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

- The scrolling animations on the header are exactly the same. - The curved/depressed backgrounds behind the hero image (fairly unique) are the same shape and style. - Page sizing is the same. - Color scheme is the same, with blue swapped out for red. These are just from glancing quickly between the two sites. Combined with the overall similarity, the fact that the scrolling animation is exactly the same is the most…

Err, their color schemes are not the same. And stop glancing at it. I want to see something real that's shows deliberate plagiarism.

The color schemes are actually quite similar.

Where Infinum uses #333, Kintek uses #313131. Where Infinum uses rgb(34, 34, 34), Kintek converts it to hex and uses #222222. The only major difference I can find is the highlight color, which is obvious. (red vs. blue)

Re: How to properly plagiarize a website

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Post by ricardobeat »

shelltreader wrote: post #81
jmharvey wrote: post #72

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Styles, like fashion, follow trends. But the similarities on these sites go well beyond just similar trends, especially once you're beyond the main page. The copy on the "Services" page is probably the most damning: We provide a wide array of software design and development services -- from Mobile applications and Web applications to User interface design, Quality assurance and Digital Strategy -- we're a trusted par…

That's not good enough; it's too common. Sentence structure can't be copyrighted, just as common design elements can't be copyrighted. Show us HTML or CSS blocks that are exactly the same or slightly tweaked on both websites.

Have you even looked at them? The top banner has rectangular links that are the same, as do the 3-column icons and the footer.

Re: How to properly plagiarize a website

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Post by andrewflnr »

kenperkins wrote: post #87
Samuel_Michon wrote: post #84

“Pablo Picasso said the famous words: "Good artists copy, great artists steal". But you shouldn't take that all too literally though. Inspiration is one thing - it happens all the time, especially in the design world. But there is a very obvious line between copying and inspiration.” Actually, it was Steve Jobs who said that. Jobs attributed it to Picasso, but there’s no record of Picasso saying anything of the sort.…

This has been addressed on http://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/03/06/artists-steal/ tl;dr: In conclusion, in 1892 an important precursor of this family of expressions was published. The author was W. H. Davenport Adams, and his words may have influenced the version that T. H. Eliot published in 1920.

How delightfully meta.

Re: How to properly plagiarize a website

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Post by Smudge »

shelltreader wrote: post #81
jmharvey wrote: post #72

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Styles, like fashion, follow trends. But the similarities on these sites go well beyond just similar trends, especially once you're beyond the main page. The copy on the "Services" page is probably the most damning: We provide a wide array of software design and development services -- from Mobile applications and Web applications to User interface design, Quality assurance and Digital Strategy -- we're a trusted par…

That's not good enough; it's too common. Sentence structure can't be copyrighted, just as common design elements can't be copyrighted. Show us HTML or CSS blocks that are exactly the same or slightly tweaked on both websites.

It's not "damning" because that sentence structure, in particular, can't be copyrighted. It's "damning" because it is one very obvious part of a larger whole which, compounded, make it very unlikely that these two sites were developed independently. You could argue that Kintek changed it just enough to make it not plagiarism or copyright violation, but that's not exactly the point.

Re: How to properly plagiarize a website

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Post by atacrawl »

jgrahamc wrote: post #9

I worked at a company where our web site was copied by a competitor entering the same domain. They copied the look of the site but also copied the Google Analytics tag as well. We found out about them because their page views showed up in our analytics.

At the company I work for now, they found a site for a British company (we are in the US) that didn't steal the look of the site or the copy of the site -- they stole the names, headshots and bios of the executives and used them on their site.

Still speechless about it.

Re: How to properly plagiarize a website

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Post by donutdan4114 »

timack wrote: post #126

Kintek has just posted an apology, of sorts: http://kintek.com.au/blog/getting-egg-on-your-face/

The closest that post admits to anything is "We do agree that we have over-stepped the line of flattery vs plagiarism. Please give us time and we will try and rectify this as soon as we get a chance.".

Everything else is kind of like.... No big deal. Egg in the face. Haha, we'll fix it.

They should have just been more clear, like, "Yes, we pretty much copied your design. We love what you guys came up with. It was wrong of us to blatantly steal your perfectly crafted masterpiece, but we just couldn't help ourselves... We are inferior."

Re: How to properly plagiarize a website

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Post by Samuel_Michon »

andrewflnr wrote: post #123
kenperkins wrote: post #87

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This has been addressed on http://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/03/06/artists-steal/ tl;dr: In conclusion, in 1892 an important precursor of this family of expressions was published. The author was W. H. Davenport Adams, and his words may have influenced the version that T. H. Eliot published in 1920.

How delightfully meta.

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