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[Shea Tisdale <shea AT networkarts.com>]

I agree entirely.  Joe or Webslingerz both have a clear cut case - but
influence is hardly a strong enough word.  A good word to describe their
design would be copied.

I just hate that people do original work - forget about it being good or bad
- but they do original work and someone with little or no talent borrows,
steals, claims as their own the look, feel or idea.

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How about a web site that simply allows designers to submit their story and
evidence.  We take no position in the matter.  We let people argue about it
and chat about it. 



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> From: Steven Champeon <schampeo AT hesketh.com>
> Reply-To: "InterNetWorkers" <internetworkers AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
> Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2000 14:26:19 -0500 (EST)
> To: "InterNetWorkers" <internetworkers AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
> Subject: [internetworkers] Re: Knockoff Site
> 
> 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
> 
> 
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