Comments on: Theme Lab Look-alike Theme Review

By: 8 Elegant 2-Column Wordpress Themes | TheAkiba: Your portal to Japan

8 Elegant 2-Column Wordpress Themes | TheAkiba: Your portal to Japan — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 00:46:31 +0000

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By: James Madara

James Madara — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 15:53:37 +0000

You have a valid point. I mean how many Apple knock offs have you seen? People will emulate what they like. From an artists POV as long as someone isn’t pawning off your work as thier own or profitting of your hard work I don’t have a problem with it.

They call them Starving Artists for a reason. How about a linkback stating: Inspired by ThemeLab at the bottom?

By: Donace

Donace — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 14:43:55 +0000

realisticly speaking the theme while very similar looking to this one, is different enough to pass the pretentious US copyright.

The issue is that he has spend $140+ on the psd and coding of the theme, this making a blanket pull out economically unsound.

I can sit here and argue the case for him, but the bottom line is that theme will probably stay online, with each good design there are many ripoffs, with each bit of bad publicity there is good.

This arguably is not a ripoff of themelabs main theme, in this argument it could be put as his misfortune, this bad publicity could be seen as one of many or one of few.

There is little we can do except publicise our work and hope it is worthy of imitation..whether there are created on purpose or unknowingly (as is the case here)

By: James Madara

James Madara — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 14:12:30 +0000

If this guy is your friend, why not ask him to pull the theme and he can file the DMCA claim himself? I would not want to be know for stealing someone elses work. Just because he bought it don’t make it right.

By: Donace

Donace — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 13:49:51 +0000

I am shocked to read your post; i actually know the owner of techtreak, and I know he brought that template as a psd from sitepoint which he later got coded.

If you drop him an email, I suppose you could file a dmca against the person who sold the PSD.

By: Alvaro

Alvaro — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 22:01:14 +0000

Hi,

I am a wordpress lover and I love those people thta give away their time and skills so we can have good themes for the wordpress community. That’s why for my blogs I always uses wordpress designers, for the following reasn: To promote thier work and to be proud of using a great design.

I wont use that “NorthBlues” thing. To be honest, I do sometime modify a template but because I want to give it my “touch”. But, I always leave the credit.

(Sorry, English no my first language)

By: Pangeran | PANGERAN.OTG

Pangeran | PANGERAN.OTG — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 10:20:04 +0000

Let them be…

The original artworks always better.
What if after redesign, someone will copy it.

Then we need to redesign again?

By: Jaypee

Jaypee — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 04:22:06 +0000

Sucks when something like this happens. Although there’s a saying that the “Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery”, I believe that there’s a difference between imitating and copying. Even if you didn’t point out this theme and I’d see it myself, I’d immediately know that it was copied from here.

I am one of the many fans of your work, especially with this theme you currently use on Theme Lab but I’d never do something like this.

Maybe you can release this theme to the public when you have a new theme/design.

By: Leland

Leland — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 12:19:17 +0000

@Madara: That’s what I had in mind actually. Just a basic Theme Lab theme that could be used as a base for other projects. I appreciate the feedback.

@Kyle: I do remember that. It appears the site is still online but not actively stealing content anymore. I didn’t know you were considering shutting down Hack WordPress because of that, but I’m glad you didn’t. It’s an invaluable resource of the WordPress community.

@Pangeran: Thanks very much for the kind words.

By: Pangeran | PANGERAN.ORG

Pangeran | PANGERAN.ORG — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 04:02:11 +0000

Here’s a quote from me.

People only copy a good and quality master piece.

Hence, this bring the meaning…
You have good and quality master piece!

Well done, Leland…