Hmmmm thanks for the heads but DS. There seems to be a little bit of nastiness there about petty things but some of the allegations seem pretty serious.
They have used some graphics in their templates and claim that was OK with the owner, onyro.com, but there is this message from the man himself (the user info backs him up as being the site owner):
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TemplateMonster RIPPS OFF ARTISTS
Template Monster has blatantly ripped off Onyro.com image 21. This is unbeleivable.
Onyro
(jul 15 02)
specifically this:
http://www.templatemonster.com/show.php?templ=106
from here:
http://www.onyro.com/
The former have removed the graphic, which is suspicious, and the latter, although impressive, doesn't permit easy direct linking but it has all been documented here:
www.mwoah.nl/jaco/ripped/
and Onyro posted this message:
quote:
HA I WAS NOT EVEN ASKED..!!!!!!
ANyway as soon as i found out about it I emailed Template Monsters and they removed it. That image WAS NOT available on any CD or was it licensed. It was blatantly stolen off my site.
Thankfully Template Monsters have seen the light and removed the template from their website.
As for the designer themselves..they could have at least had the decency to ask me..rather than ripping me off behind my back. The specific image took more than 4 days of modelling and photoshoping..I doubt the designer would hva even bothered to do this.
The specific piece was created from teh front cover of Digit Magazine here in the UK.
In my eyes its was a blatant rip off and I was pissed off big time.
Thankfully this bad has been corrected.
DON'T DO IT AGAIN.!!!!!
Onyro
(jul 16 02)
and:
quote:
I've got Lawyers looking into my rights at the moment..as this happenes to me a lot nowadays unfortunately..yet another bloody expence...I'm broke..
Onyro
(jul 16 02)
Nope we don't take kindly to this kind of thing and I'm shutting this thread down - taking other people's work and selling it as your own.........
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