Stealing From Microsoft, And Other Brilliant Ideas...
What are the two companies you probably shouldn’t crib your site design from? That’s easy: Microsoft and Apple. Both are iron-fist giants who would pummel you for even thinking about it. So it was interesting to hear in this story over at M-Dollar, “Microsoft: The Victim of a Pirated Website Design?” that that’s exactly what happened, with a firm in China stealing an layout from an older Microsoft site. Here’s some:
Because the site is owned by a popular Chinese web portal, Wiseman jested, “Couldn’t they afford to hire a designer?” Jokes aside, he also notes his real purpose for pointing this out, which was to call on the issue of cross-border copyright infringement.
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