He said all he grabbed it for was the palette. I asked why he didn’t just grab the palette then and why put his own copyright on it? He then locked it away behind a password. Who knows what he did with it? And that was a rather successful web company who I had high regard for until that point. Obviously they get their web standards work done by ripping layouts and rebadging…

ahhh the nature of the work we do

and thanks for the link, it was an interesting read.

When I read this initially, I couldn’t think of anything really useful to add. But now, a few days later, well there’s a nice link I can throw in to the comments…actually, it doesn’t relate that closely to the specifics of your article mate – but it does have some good tips about Copyright chasing! I’ve bookmarked it in my ‘Legal’ folder* – so here’s me doing some sharing:

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/four-ways-to-enforce-your-copyright-what-to-do-when-your-online-content-is-being-stolen

*Hey, isn’t it a bit sad that I even need to have a folder about Legal-type matters on the Web?! Hmm…