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... Integrity is the essence of everything successful ...
R. Buckminster Fuller


CREATIVITY

Nothing to a designer is more sacred than their work. At BestInShow Design we work hard for success. We are proud of our standing in the web design community and are pleased to have many fellow designers as friends. However a very disturbing trend began a few years ago, that of fellow "dog breeder" designers taking copyright text from the BestInShow Design site for use on their own web sites, and then having the audacity to display their own "copyright" notice on pages with our content. Others have taken entire layouts and claimed them as their own!

Some say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, however copyright is a serious matter. We are tired of the blatant plagiarism of our web site/s and are prepared to take a stand to protect our intellectual property and that of our clients.

 

\Pla"gia*rism\, n.
1: a piece of writing that has been copied from someone else and is presented as being your own work
2: the act of plagiarizing; taking someone's words or ideas as if they were your own.

 

OUR PROCESS

  • All offenses are documented with screen shots of original and plagiarized work (which may include IP Address documentation of visits to our web site(s).
  • The offender is contacted and given a chance to reconcile their actions by removing the content and/or graphics from their site within 36 hours of our initial contact.
  • If the copyright content is not removed within 36 hours of inital contact we will utilize the protections of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act to encourage the offender's web host to remove our copyright content from the offending web site. The offence will also be displayed on our web site.
  • If all else fails, legal action will be taken.


OUR COPYRIGHT

© 2000-2007 BestInShow Design. All Rights Reserved.

The web site published at BestInShowDesign.com and BestInShowDogs.com is owned by Susanne Lamkin-Eads & Michael Eads, BestInShow Design. The content, design, graphics, and the underlying markup code is protected by US Law. No portion of this web site may be copied, transmitted or published in any form in any media, except as normal "browser download," without prior authorization in writing from BestInShow Design.

If you find our copyrighted materials in use elsewhere, we ask that you contact us.



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CURRENT OFFENCES

  • All copyright infringements to date have been resolved.

 

 

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