this style hacked...
 

it was posted on yaxay.com..which had thier style hacked or stolen by some1 named Tommy..

http://www.tommytommy.com/forum/home.php

^^^vb.org

http://www.23to6.com/bbs/

^^Yaxay

Yea, that prick stole 3 of my styles. I emailed him. He is a member of my forums, or was. I asked him to remove them from his board. We exchanged a few emails, and I basically told he was a ripper, with no morals. His hobby is to rip every vb style he can find. And he's damn proud of it.

Look at the bottom it says ripped from yaxay...what idiots.
I really hate this :(
I am sure that idiot who ripped all your styles can be prosecuted in court by the designer of the styles, and the proper owner of the styles.

But will anyone, or is it work it is another question

He's in a country that doesn't care about US copyright.

Wow those are pretty good rips..

Doesn't give them any right to do it though :)

I always wonder whats the point of ripping ... especially when its such well known designs..

You'll always get found out..

- miSt

Smoothie, then were gonna have to fly over to where ever he lives and beat the crap out of him now wouldn't we?

I really don't think these links should be posted publicly or at least not discussed publicly. I for one just reported them to Jelsoft because it's likely that they're pirated or have license violations anyway.

Its despicable:(

Satan

I disagree 1000%. These bastards should be exposed for all to see. filburt1, I know you put a lot of work and time and effort into your skin. How would feel if it were your stuff they were rippin?

ArunanS- I got my credit card ready, lets catch the next fight over and pay jerky a visit.

I'd be pissed but I wouldn't post it publicly. I'd consider a lawsuit if I really felt like it and I'd find some obscure violation of the license agreement to get Jelsoft to take away their license.

Tell ya right now, you ain't doin jack to people that live outside of the US. There is no copyright law. Next solution?

All I'm doing is echoing what the mods at vB.com do: say that these URLs shouldn't be discussed publicly.

Well, then why not give his visitors a good impression by informing them of this?

speaking of lawsuit, there is noway, even in US, that any1 can be sued, unless providing a Copyright or Contract of Legality and Ownership of any kind of design.

And to get a "copyright" on a forum template design, would be like buying a mark mcgwire rookie card, graded 10, for $1.00.

I haven't seen any proof of someone owning anything. If another person takes the ideas of some1 else, that might be ++++ed up, but it isn't illegal unless its owned by the creator. All I see is text saying things are "copyright". If asked, can these companies provide us with business licenses or proof of ownership? If so, then yes you might have a lawsuit, if not, all it is is just text and ALT+NUMBER commands making the © and ™ signs.

Keep this info incase one of you have a business plan or some sort of idea for something. Make sure you protect yourself @ all angles.

As soon as you create something it has an implied copyright. Not always easy to uphold in court but that's at least one US law to be thankful for.

You can register a copyright and patent but both take a long time and can be expensive for normal end users.

Technically, if you read the Copyright laws (US I think they were), you can put the Copyright ? and year of copyrights on any webpage, and the content is noted as Copyright to that author...

I dont fully understand, as I am in the UK, and US Copyright laws dont apply to us...If someone could clear it up, that would be great;)

Satan

I'm sure corey will take action :)

- miSt

never mind what i said i didnt read the first post lol

Are they not any International Copyright Laws, there are International Police, then there is the UN...they should have international copyright laws too :'(

Every country should make its own Copyright laws...

Then they should be reviewed, and then they should be compared to others, and come up with a Universal Copyright law...

Satan

according to the U.S. Copyright Office, this actually cannot be copyrighted, unless I am reading it incorrectly.

U.S. Copyright Office

It says:

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http://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ1.html#wnp

There is other key elements there mentioning designs and/or slogans, ideas, and so on...

From what it looks like, it doesn't appear there is any legal grounds of Copyright infringment pertaining to online forums sold out of Jelsoft using designs and ideas already made.

infact, it appears that all hacks created here and distributed are not actually, as the footer here says:

All hacks are copyright their respective owners.

they aren't copyright material, since they are all ideas and discoveries, also explained int hat Copyright site.

I'm not liking this thread...

- miSt

Designs are not common property. Nor are all made available as a free source. The one you have listed there, refers to common issues.

For example: The Hacks are copyright to the owner, but the idea cannot be, unless it is registered, trademarked legally etc.

Therefore, Layouts, and styles are definatly an issure that is arguable in court, if the rightful owner of the layouts/styles (not the person who purchased it) can provide full proof, in this case (psds, and other formats) then they have a full ownership and copyrights to the style. Which include the images in it. Though the images are copyright. Not all images can be copyrighted. For example: Common smilies, icons etc

but if a person was contracted to do a custom design for example, then person who the style was made for has full ownership