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Wordpresstemplates.com Re-distributing Our Themes

Discussion in 'Legal Issues' started by Muqadas.Wattoo, Apr 9, 2009.

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    Hello,

    Wordpresstemplates.com is re-distributing our original themes without our promotion and sponsored links.

    I own a site themesjunction.com and made almost 100+ themes by our designers and coders team. Today i received an email from a guy telling me that the owner of wordpresstemplates is using our site themes and promoting them with his site links in theme footer file.

    Few of them:

    Original:
    http://www.themesjunction.com/theme/girly_diaries_wordpress_template-1315.html

    Copied and published by him:
    http://www.wordpresstemplates.com/girly-diaries/

    Original:
    http://www.themesjunction.com/theme/beauty_magazine_wordpress_template-1694.html

    Copied and published by him:
    http://www.wordpresstemplates.com/beauty-magazine/

    He wrote in footer:
    © 2009 Theme Preview. Designed by Themes Junction for Wordpress Design (his link)

    We never made any theme design for him.

    There's no info on his site to How to contact him.
    So how and what action is needed to be taken?
    How to stop scammers like him?

    Thanks

    Mail sent to us:
    
I wanted to let you know that http://www.wordpresstemplates.com/ is redistributing your theme with deeply encoded embedded links to crappy spam sites (viagra, etc). They add 2 files to the installation - start_template.php and theme_licence.php - and must reference it elsewhere, too, because you can't just delete those files and be done with it. At least one of the above-mentioned files is base 64 encoded - twice - and very difficult to interpret.

Here is an example of the code as rendered in the page source (with *** added so as not to cause problems with this post):

<body>
<div id="begin_template"><a href="http://www.pde5.org">PDE5 Inhibitors</a></div><script language="j***script">
document.getElementById("begin_template").style.display="none";
                </script>

I just thought you would want to know, especially since YOUR company is supposedly the source of this bit of nastiness.
    Code (markup):
     
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    mytvtalk Active Member

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    contact his webhost
     
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  3. Nonny

    Nonny Notable Member

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    Send the web site owner and his host a DMCA takedown notice. If you are feeling kind, you can send the web sites owner a warning first, but you are not required to do that. If the owner or host doesn't respond, you can also send a DMCA takedown notice to Google to get the site removed from the SERPs.

    The information in these links can help:

    http://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2006/06/22/proper-use-of-the-dmca/
    (there's a link from that post to a form you can use)
    http://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2008/05/15/takedown-faq/
    http://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2008/07/22/how-to-email-a-dmca-to-google/
     
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