{"id":2274,"date":"2004-02-25T11:29:12","date_gmt":"2004-02-26T03:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/02\/25\/irony-copyright-and-site-design\/"},"modified":"2019-12-09T16:33:17","modified_gmt":"2019-12-10T00:33:17","slug":"irony-copyright-and-site-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/02\/25\/irony-copyright-and-site-design\/","title":{"rendered":"Irony, copyright, and site design"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:11660,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/dawnkeyotie.blogspot.com&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20250926185344\\\/https:\\\/\\\/dawnkeyotie.blogspot.com\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-11 18:16:42&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-07 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18:17:20&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-07 14:42:27&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-07 14:42:27&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:11667,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.ujournal.org\\\/users\\\/fd&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>First, read what this gentleman has to say about the appropriation of content from other weblogs:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  I was reading <a href=\"http:\/\/dawnkeyotie.blogspot.com\/\">Dawnkeyotie&#8217;s blog<\/a> and she links to the story of <a href=\"http:\/\/tequilamockingbird.blogspot.com\/\">Tequila Mockingbird<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/tequilamockingbird.blogspot.com\/2004_01_01_tequilamockingbird_archive.html#107344890703403175\">how some young punk wannbe blogger has been stealing her material<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>  Now I&#8217;ll admit to being influenced by other sites, like my About This Site page borrows rather heavily from the <a href=\"http:\/\/animoller.com\/about.html\">About page at Ani Moller&#8217;s site<\/a>, but stealing word for word&#8230; Just not cool.<\/p>\n<p>  Etiquette is the name of the game&#8230; If you want to use text, at least give proper credit, or a trackback if possible.<\/p>\n<p>  If you want to steal my life, go ahead, I dare you&#8230; I Double Dog Dare You&#x2122; Mofo! I may not display a copyright notice, but it&#8217;s in the source of every page on this site.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Now, with that firmly in mind, head on over and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scamcity.co.uk\/journal\/index.php\" title=\"Scam City version 7.0\">check out his site design<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Look familiar? It looks <em>awfully<\/em> familiar to me. Funny, there&#8217;s no credit given, and he&#8217;s replaced the copyright notice in my code with one of his own, implying that the design work is his.<\/p>\n<p>According to his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scamcity.co.uk\/journal\/about.php\" title=\"Scam City version 7.0 :: About The Site\">about page<\/a>, the last major redesign to his site went live on Monday, Feb.\u00a02nd of 2004. Checking his archives, here&#8217;s what we find for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scamcity.co.uk\/journal\/index.php?p=161&amp;more=1&amp;c=1\" title=\"New Look, New Version\">redesign announcement<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  You like?<\/p>\n<p>  I though I&#8217;d lost this new look, but luckily a few files were still on my server so for the last 12 hours I went through everything with the virtual equivalent of a fine tooth comb and cleaned it all up and finally finished what I started some 2 weeks ago.<\/p>\n<p>  I think it&#8217;s much nicer, but then anything is much nicer than the old b2 default template, so it makes this place my own at last.<\/p>\n<p>  Before you ask, yes, it looks a bit unaligned in Internet Explorer, but it looks great in Mozilla Firebird and seeing as that&#8217;s the browser I use mostly, get used to it. If I can find a way to realign in IE I will, but until then it&#8217;s just cosmetic differences.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yes &#8212; he definitely made this place his own &#8212; as long as &#8220;his own&#8221; is rather loosely defined as &#8220;blatantly stolen from someone else&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Sigh.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>really<\/em> ridiculous thing about this, though, is that I actually do like the way my design translates to a two-column layout. Considering I occasionally toy with the idea of going back to a two-column design rather than this single-column design, if I used the same base overall look, I&#8217;d end up looking nearly exactly how he does now. Would I then have to turn around and give <em>him<\/em> credit for inspiring some of the design?<\/p>\n<p>Again &#8212; oh, the irony.<\/p>\n<p>(Many thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ujournal.org\/users\/fd\/\" title=\"Firas' Journal\">Firas<\/a> for the <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/02\/ive_got_a_fan.html#c653151\" title=\"You've got other sorts of fans...\">tip-off<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>Update: <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/02\/irony_copyright.html#c654646\" title=\"All's well that ends well\u2026\">All&#8217;s well that ends well<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First, read what this gentleman has to say about the appropriation of content from other weblogs&hellip;then, head on over and check out his site design<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2040],"tags":[25],"class_list":["post-2274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-website"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2274\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}