Kathy said around mid-morning on November 17, 2007
Seriously? Are people even trying? Have a look at the “M” logo… and the copyright notice, and the tab favicon. Looks familiar. Imitation is flattery? ... I don’t know how long that excuse is going to last with me sometimes. Oh and it gets better: Her Amazon Store! Thanks for ripping me off and for hot linking my graphics.
SERIOUSLY.
Updated: She has also stolen our myspace layouts… It is one thing to admire someone else’s style..it quite another to blatantly steal. *sigh*
from your moms.
oh dang, that sux. i say track her down and give her knuckle sandwich!!
from York, PA
You and Jo are just sooo kewl!! It seems that she want’s to be just like you!! I wonder if she is dyeing her hair blonde too? :D
On the serious side, I wonder how much it will take from your lawyers to get her to stop? That’s just wrong.
from San Diego, CA
Cocktail: Slighty dirty Grey Goose Martini
This girl has been ripping us off for a long time. In fact, I do believe this was a client of mine called Faith Jean that I did a whole design for and she totally blew me off, never paid me, etc.
Since then, I’ve seen this “faith jean” person pop-up again and again, each time she’s ripping us off. Remember her from ColourLovers? She’s on there and we popped her for ripping us off once before. I’m 99.9% this is the same person.
Even M is the same color. M design studios? STOP THE MADNESS.
from my chair
I say kick her ass and pull her hair… rip off people piss me off!
from fairfax, va
pink flavor? nice ... and why the “M” logo for “afghan hound”?
she does have some stylish stuff though.
from San Diego, CA
Cocktail: Slighty dirty Grey Goose Martini
@tj: tell me you didn’t just say that. LOL The only reason she’s got stylish stuff is because SHE’S STEALING IT FROM US.
This WAS my client. I just confirmed it. This was MY client from 2004. Her name is Faith Jean and she used to be at a blog called faithjean.ourhidingplace.com (a.ka. Babe O’ Licious - screenshot of my work). She never paid me and now she’s stealing from us.
This is NOT the first time we’ve discovered her ripping us off.
from mi
Funny that you brought this up today. I was surfing EBay last night for basset hound gifts and found someone selling photos of MY dog that I took.
He says it is legal because I didn’t have it copyrighted and I know he’s not making a ton of money but crap, he sold at leat 6 or 7 of them and it’s my photo of MY dog!
Ticks me off.
from KY
Thieves are so nasty. You should poke her eye out!
from San Diego, CA
Cocktail: Slighty dirty Grey Goose Martini
@manda: we don’t advocate violence. lol. but it crossed my mind…
from San Diego, CA
Cocktail: Slighty dirty Grey Goose Martini
Fancy that… everything is magically “hidden” or “removed” now. Private myspace, she hid her logo… she even deleted her MyBlogLog account.
Nothing says ‘innocence’ like a run for the hills.
from West Palm Beach, FL
Cocktail: Champagne Bellini
Ahh she goes back into hiding, waiting to pounce the “view source” button once again.
from your moms.
@jenn, he’s wrong, you do own copyright as soon as you take the photo. did he swipe them from your site, or from Flickr? you can always report him to ebay and tell them he stole your photos.
@kathy - will this person never learn?
from San Diego, CA
Cocktail: Slighty dirty Grey Goose Martini
hahahahaha! She blocked my IP. That’s excellent. hahaha!
from Canada
hah! I liked the horse’s ass that you substituted for her hot linked image on the Amazon store. Plus, the message was a nice little verbal spank.
Not only stealing intellectual property, but bandwidth.
Maybe she had faith that she wouldn’t get caught?
Wrong!
from Orlando, FL
Cocktail: Cabernet Sauvignon; gallons of it.
Oh man, I’m too late to see any of it. I’d have loved to have seen the horse’s ass. You are too smart[ass] by half, kathy.
I think I’d pop a vein in my forehead if I ever saw any of my work/photos for sale on the internetz by anyone other than myself. Serious tornado of death stuff. Us peri-menopausal women are not to be reckoned with.
from Massachusetts
Heh, while she has made many things “forbidden” she still has this site linked as the example of the “blond girl” she wants drawn for her personal site.
from Clive Owen's Bedroom
Cocktail: Mojito
Unbelievable. Utterly unbelievable. Actually, I take that back. I don’t know why I even act surprised. More and more people are doing shit like this everyday. Can’t you guys sue?