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your copyright covers your text, design (html and css), and code, so unless you're claiming that they actually stole your code (and then translated it to what l
by there 17y ago
your copyright covers your text, design (html and css), and code, so unless you're claiming that they actually stole your code (and then translated it to what looks like asp.net) or are using direct copies of your css or html, i don't think you really have a leg to stand on, legally.
someone creating something from scratch that looks like (or "inspired by") your site is not infringing on your copyright at all. looking at screenshots on the two sites, i can see some similarities, but enough differences that it doesn't look like it was directly copied. to be honest, though, neither design looks that unique. one could say you copied the signup chart on your site from 37signals or any of the other dozen sites that look like it since it's so popular.
i think your best bet is just to move on and try to be better than your competition. you can try to call them out publicly, but it will just give them free publicity and drive traffic to their site.
- lunaru 17y agoThey have, in fact, copied large portions of my HTML, CSS, and even image assets pixel for pixel.
- aristus 17y agoA tip for the future: most image formats have some sort of header field you can stick copyright info into. Open a GIF or JPEG saved by Photoshop in text editor to see what I mean. Showing that another site is serving files with your (c) inside them is pretty damning.
- jackem 17y agoAre you sure?
- sho 17y ago+1 to that. Also I wouldn't worry too much, their sites are noticeably less polished than Ronin. Also, there is a suspicious lack of company info, etc - a WHOIS on the domain returns a private registration which is strange for an invoicing business. Hearing that they develop in C# - or rather their offshore team in Pakistan does - does not fill me with confidence either. A lot of question marks. I wouldn't worry about it. Just ignore them.
- bfung 17y agoanother +1 to parent's last sentence. If they can copy your site easily, hackers here can probably copy it in a weekend (StackOverflow, cough). Keep moving forward, improve with features until they can no longer keep up copying (unless your functionality/service is trivial, then too bad). Improve your reputation and marketing, and if you are truly better, it will be like StackOverflow and it's wannabe. to tell you the truth, both sites look like a slightly modified basecamp to me.
- 00bama 17y agoI agree. I am big fan of Basecamp and they both look like basecamp and freshbooks combined. Ronin has some less features to offer but Net2Invoice is similar to basecamp. I wonder if 37 signals know this.