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[Steven Champeon <schampeo AT hesketh.com>]

On Fri, 18 Feb 2000, Shea Tisdale wrote:
> Here is one for you.
> 
> http://www.urbanfetch.com/
> 
> remind anyone of amazon?

There's a big difference between influence and theft, IMHO. Joe can prove
that his site was *stolen* & reused, byte per byte. These guys can claim
that they simply borrowed certain components of an overarching interface
concept. I can't tell you how many tab interfaces I've seen, nor how many
"shopping cart in a circle" icons.

> We need to start a web site just for the purpose of keeping track of these
> incidents.

If we do, we'd better be damn careful to distinguish between:

 1) this site was stolen from this site (which, as has been pointed
    out already, amounts to libel or slander  or something ugly)

and

 2) "gee, this site sure looks a lot like this, pre-existing site"

Maybe we could let people vote on whether a site was stolen or not.

Steve