{"id":429,"date":"2009-05-12T00:57:24","date_gmt":"2009-05-12T04:57:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artisansofthevalley.com\/blog\/?p=429"},"modified":"2009-05-13T15:11:11","modified_gmt":"2009-05-13T19:11:11","slug":"wtf-is-this-flattery-or-theft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artisansofthevalley.com\/blog\/wtf-is-this-flattery-or-theft\/","title":{"rendered":"WTF? (um … the politically correct version) – Is this Flattery or Theft?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Imitation is the greatest form of flattery right? Yeah maybe, but it\u2019s still kind of annoying when you find it\u2019s happening to you! “Our wood has been comprimised!” (That’s a Teri quote BTW … I give proper credit …)<\/span><\/p>\n

If you\u2019re not familiar with our \u201cNew Wave Gothic\u201d<\/a> furniture line, we\u2019ve been developing a unique style by combining Gothic, Renaissance, Tudor, Medieval, Mission, maybe some country \u2013 and a little of our own twist to create an original design. We apparently succeeded … we’ve been spoofed!<\/span><\/p>\n

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Umm – Can you say The\u00a0Images & Designs above are the Property of Artisans of the Valley – All Rights Reserved? … We knew you could!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

The power of the web \u2013 the images, the detail, the data \u2013 all great to portray your work online reaching and we\u2019re all excited to reach a worldwide audience. Then one day one of your friends is surfing the web and pings you back with a link \u2026 and you find \u2026 your design reverse engineered and manifested in living color half way around the world! This monster fake was built in Thailand …<\/span><\/p>\n

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Can you say “Knock-off?” …. We knew you could …<\/strong><\/p>\n

Now – I guess it does answer the question of “How big can you build your gothic table?” … Well, we can build it REALLY REALLY big … large enough to fill the dining room of a castle. This\u00a0really is our design, a few minor tweaks, a couple simple changes, but … stand back and take a good look.\u00a0Do we entagle into international copywrite infringement battles or just tips our hats and say nice job and steal back the modificaitons they made to our fretwork panels? One thing that should be made\u00a0very clear this knock-off is defiately lacking our signatures, and it wasn’t made in the USA \u00a0….\u00a0so …\u00a0whatever the new owner paid for\u00a0this table\u00a0they didn’t get an investment …\u00a0they got a table.<\/p>\n

The moral of the story is – what’s online becomes fair game for anyone and everyone to pillage. Publicity is fantastic – but beware of the risks that come with online fame as not only will your clients find you but so will the rest of the world!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Imitation is the greatest form of flattery right? Yeah maybe, but it\u2019s still kind of annoying when you find it\u2019s happening to you!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,7],"tags":[53,16,112,109,13,69,111,114,108,110,107,62,113,70],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artisansofthevalley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artisansofthevalley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artisansofthevalley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artisansofthevalley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artisansofthevalley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=429"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/www.artisansofthevalley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":465,"href":"https:\/\/www.artisansofthevalley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429\/revisions\/465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artisansofthevalley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artisansofthevalley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artisansofthevalley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}