Legal Marketing & PR

Stealing our Designs! Web Designers Beware of Free Give Aways.

By Peter

Ack, we caught another person stealing one of our designs.  This time they are giving it away as a free template for others to use!  Double ack!

Designers or clients, beware when someone offers a design for free.  They may not own the actual copyright to the design.

We redid the ClarkSkatoff.com web site this year.  It was a great success and boosted his search rankings, boosted the impression of his firm, and led to more clients / profits.  You can check our our snazzy detail shots in our portfolio.

I guess all of this hard work goes noticed.  Another web designer had copied our design for another law firm (see the Budin design on this portfolio page).

The firm did not choose the design according to their own comments, so the designer has now given the design away for free!  Not cool, as now other people think they can use the design.

We’ve contacted the designer to pull the design and notify everyone of the infringement.  In case the damaging evidence goes away, here is a screen cap of the site that is giving it away for free.  Shame on them.

Full post as published by PaperStreet Web Design: SpeakOut on November 24, 2009 (boomark / email).