Hey everyone, I logged onto Hotmail today and I had a new email, so I click on it, and it said... Last year I made a proxy called Surf Ease. I sold it on Site Point. I now run a proxy called Surf Please. The design is obviously similar, however that doesn't matter since I made both of the designs. The template on his site is blatantly a rip of the template on Surf Ease, and so are the Terms of Use he's using, because the person I made Surf Ease with wrote those Terms. He's reported me to Google when I'm not the one in the wrong, and my site is being investigated What should I do? Help is REALLY appreciated.
I have never heard of this before, but you may want to speak to a lawyer who knows about copyright laws?
You have accepted that design is similar. Are contents are also similar ? If Yes, then you should be worried about that. Google will ban you website if contents have been copied.
Do you have proof that you designed them, If so then I would submit that to the guy that emailed you and google if they contact you, (or contact them before they take action.
Submit the proof to google and tell them the truth! I'd get MAD if that happened to me. Sorry to hear it, but i hope you'll get things back in place.
I would consult some leagal advice, but here is a small example of this. He has copy righted your work. Consequently, almost any original expression (copyright) that is fixed in a tangible form is protected as soon as it is expressed. For example, a graphic created in Photoshop is protected as soon as the file is saved to disk. This Web page was protected as soon as I stopped typing and saved the .html file. http://www.benedict.com/info/Law/What.aspx Just get your proofs, and you should not have any problems
Hello. this is a great problem. as others suggest u should contact someone who knows about this issue; that is a lawyer.
I strongly suspect he is just trying to get you riled up, which has obviously worked. Just ignore the idiot until you get some official correspondence like a letter from his lawyer. Chances are he willl not take it any further and he's just trying to scare you into submission, ignore it since you're clearly in the right. Google wont waste resources investigating this sort of rubbish.
If you read the topic you'd know I haven't done anything. Stop bumping my old topics or else I'm going to report you.