Local Plagiarism
Today I got a call from one of my clients that sounded pretty upset when I answered. I ask what was going on and he proceeded to tell me that someone had stolen their site design and used it for their business site. If that wasn’t enough - the company that stole it is a direct competitor in the same town as Century Driving School. From what it sounds like, this isn’t the first time these guys have ripped Century’s ideas off.
So after our conversation on the issue, we called the owner and asked him what the heck was up. He somewhat passed the buck onto his web developer (which is also guilty) but also got caught up in a few lies himself while trying to describe he had no idea how this happened.
As of right now - we’ve told him he has until Monday the 18th to either have his website redesigned or taken down. If he decides to keep it up, the lawyers get involved and begin to have a conversation with him and his developer on intellectual copyright law and deliberately hurting the Century Driving School’s brand.
Note: Dan Morrison also helped out with the website and he had a few things to say as well on his brand new blog.
tracy Says:
did the other company take down their site? just curious as to how it all turned out!