Copyright with websites

Aruffell

Aruffell

Aruffell

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First things first -

My website - www.eteknix.com
His website - www.burnoutpc.com

I had a thread created on my forums today stating as follows:

I am the owner of BurnOutPC.com and your site has been reported to me by other owners of review sites. I have noticed you have copied the layout and theme of my website and have even spoke in forums of trying to add features (e.g. paged reviews) to your site in a similar manner.

If you do not change the functioning of your site within this week, I will be reporting you for copyright. I know that the theme you are using is a template, but if you actually read up on copyright, you will notice what you're doing is illegal.

Either way, if I do not see an immediate change of site design, review layout etc. I will be confirming you as a black hat to other review site owners who have reported your site to me and I will be contacting companies informing them not to send products to you.

I do like it how you have contacted other review sites to be affiliates and have not contacted me - guilty are we?

I look forward to your response.
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Yes i admit, i saw the site and liked the layout, i then bought the wordpress theme and tweaked it with the creator of it to look slightly different.

Page navi is a feature of wordpress but somehow im going to be sued for wanting to use it even though i don't lol.

So my response:

Yes i am using a theme for wordpress which i purchased from Zy.sg - nice guy called Melvin and i think your find my design is a bit different to yours with regards to navigation etc...

You have no grounds of copyright or anything of the sort.

I have approached a lot of websites for affiliation, i haven't approached yours as it seems you don't post a mass amount of news from other sites so i didn't see a mass benefit with this.

Yes i was trying to get page navi working (this is a feature of wordpress so once again no copyright issues)

My reviews are video based so they conform to your style by no degree so once again no issue.

I have now banned your user account because i would have preferred an email or pm, not a thread created.

If you would like to email me back on [email protected] we can discuss this further.

Many thanks,

Andy
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So what are your views on this as i think it's a load of tosh.

Thanks,

Andy
 
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