Oh man, I was looking forward to use this in my upcoming weekend project.
Flat UI DMCA Takedown
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Re: Flat UI DMCA Takedown
#82So, both sides have pretty much spoken, and what irks me the most is that the LayerVault guys haven't provided any concrete evidence to support their claims; they've posted vague responses and joked about DMCA'ing their friends on Twitter. There's also the question of why they would even pursue something like this. A simple Risks/Benefits analysis would've surely led most people not to issue a DMCA over a few icons t…
I could understand a DMCA if the icons were direct copies and if FlatUI had not responded to any email requests.
Even then it's a good idea to put up a quick and easy comparison sheet.
But for things like "3 cogs" (cogs are different sizes, different colours, different numbers of teeth, different orientation) it's ridiculous to DMCA it. 3 Cogs is so generic that it's an annoyance to engineers. (Because the cogs are usually drawn in such a way that they cannot possibly turn).
HN is generally pretty good when people rip off a design. Even people like me (who have very little idea about design) respect the amount of work and expertise that goes on. But it's because I have so little clue about design that people need to explain the similarities. If you're the first people to curl a newspaper under then tell me that. Show me what people used to do, and how you innovated that.
Re: Flat UI DMCA Takedown
#83LayerVault, the same people who brought you DesignerNews. If that's indeed them who sent the notice, they are just shitting all over their reputation and alienating a lot of people. Talk about "starting off on the wrong foot"... and for what? A design that is border-line trivial. It would seem that their best option for getting the situation under control is to release their own version of the toolkit. A version that…
I lost respect for LayerVault when their software that I paid what I thought was good money for totally corrupted the PSD of an entire project that had 2 months worth of work put into it. I thought I had a backup on my laptop, desktop, remote backup from my desktop and all the revisions on their server. But all revisions were corrupted and it synced those bad copies to all my machines, including the machine that perf…
This is bad but it also looks like you didnt have a proper backup strategy. Their service looks like a versioning/syncing service but not a backup service.
Re: Flat UI DMCA Takedown
#84I think these are the icons in question from LayerVault, DesignMode, and similar icons from Noun Project. http://imgur.com/IH1osAD
I'd love to see a "Family Tree" style layout from a GUI Historian, showing the development of different icons.
"Here's the eMail icon. This version was designed by Susan Kare".
Re: Flat UI DMCA Takedown
#85Funny that the mods haven't fixed the typo in this title in the 4 hours since it was posted, they must be too busy messing up other titles by removing useful context and deleting swear words...
Re: Flat UI DMCA Takedown
#86So I think the Noun Project should just send a takedown notice to LayerVault. Since the perjury clause only pertains to contact info and whether they can represent the project itself, that would have the same consequences for "accidentally" getting the actual allegation wrong (=none), right?
Re: Flat UI DMCA Takedown
#87Earlier quoted context omitted.
So they have taken down the whole project just because of three similar looking icons? That's ridiculous
And the colors used are exactly the same: http://pixxel.co/feed/layervault-issues-dmca-takedown
They aren't the same, and both appear to just use a tetradic collection of colours:
http://www.tigercolor.com/color-lab/color-theory/color-theor...
It's impossible to pick a green in a tetradic scheme and not get a red, orange and blue to match it.
Re: Flat UI DMCA Takedown
#88LayerVault, the same people who brought you DesignerNews. If that's indeed them who sent the notice, they are just shitting all over their reputation and alienating a lot of people. Talk about "starting off on the wrong foot"... and for what? A design that is border-line trivial. It would seem that their best option for getting the situation under control is to release their own version of the toolkit. A version that…
Designmodo announced Flat UI Free v.1.1 is public Now! Download updated version - http://designmodo.com/flat-free/ PSD & HTML (Twitter Bootstrap based)! Create a new topic guys!
That page has been up since before this debacle. The actual package itself (the HTML download) is hosted on Github and subject to the takedown.
Re: Flat UI DMCA Takedown
#89I have never seen the inside of LayerVault. The demo page only has vague outlines of similar controls. Does anyone have screenshots of LayerVault in action?
All I could find. http://i.imgur.com/yFHlGVH.png http://i.imgur.com/VX1h4Xj.png http://i.imgur.com/oyAYDM8.png http://i.imgur.com/ZUlf0hF.png http://i.imgur.com/QMSTZ8k.png Given that they don't show it off on their demo page, it's either incomplete or clunky.
Robots are generic, but that 50s style robot looks pretty similar to this 50s robot: (http://fineartamerica.com/featured/robot-from-50s-carlos-mon...) (t-bar eyebrows, analogue gauge on chest).
"The Son of Man" was painted 1964. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Son_of_Man_(Magritte))
Re: Flat UI DMCA Takedown
#90I think these are the icons in question from LayerVault, DesignMode, and similar icons from Noun Project. http://imgur.com/IH1osAD
I'd love to see a "Family Tree" style layout from a GUI Historian, showing the development of different icons. "Here's the eMail icon. This version was designed by Susan Kare".
That's a work of [philological][1] investigation, and I'd like to see something like that too. Could it be good project?