GirlsLoveDJs is party organisation and clothing company from Amsterdam. In our 2008 collection we had a shirt as well as a sweater with the same design called the ‘All Drips’ or ‘Dripper’ pictured below.

The original 'dripper'

Last August, Pharrel Williams’ (of N.E.R.D.) clothing line Billionaire Boys Club came out with the I.C. (Ice Cream) drip T-shirt (scroll down 3/4 to view shirts), which is quite similar.

The ripped 'dripper' by BBC

If you look closely to the comparison on exhibit A. you’ll see that Pharell probably cut up our shirt, took the sample and just looped it into a whole new design. He did add some effects but somehow didn’t manage to make a better product out of it, come on Pharrell you can do better than that!

exhibit A

Pharrell hasn’t commented on his alleged clothing sampling and looping yet, but we’ll keep you posted if he does.

i am bitching, but thats fine. if he can lift my website theme, code &  artworks… i have atleast the RIGHT TO BITCH

here’s my website screenshot

chumu.com

this is the guy who lifted my website theme, code & artworks. he has lifted work from numerous designers & agencies claiming his own.

he is such an idiot that he forgot to remove my current employers name & my designation, google analytics code cant be an exception in this case with this moron.  he he hee…

I made a gigposter for Of Montreal last year, and a month or so ago posted a smaller art print (8″ x 10″) version of the work on my flickr page.

A fellow poster maker spotted the image online, apparently promoting a Texas music festival called Connect the Dots. They just slapped some text on it and turned it into a flier.

Ugh. I have sent messages to all the bands and the festival (all of them have it as their myspace profile pic) in hopes that they will take it down and stop actin’ a fool.

Daniel Palillo SS09

A hoodie from the collection with a skull print.

A copy of the print made by wholesale retailer zipia.net.

http://zipia.net/

So here’s something a little different… I’ve found about a dozen different websites (mostly from India and China) that ripped off my site – actually lifted the code straight from mine!

Many of them have changed the graphics to varying degrees, but most a did really sloppy job with the code, leaving references to my name, my Google Analytics code, my copyright info, etc…

What’s even more deplorable is that several of them are so-called web designers! Or even worse, DreamTeam (a tech company based in Jodhpur, India.) have claimed that they designed the site themselves, and SOLD IT TO A CLIENT! Cheeky!

Original

Here you can check out my old site online, but I made some changed after discovering the rips – notably, I’ve added a “Please don’t steal this site” disclaimer to my CSS and replaced the Google Analytics code.

Rip#1

Sanjeevkahali.com
This is the one ripped by DreamTeam. I’ve already had words with the site owner and with DreamTeam’s CEO. They took the site down at first and looks like they were trying to re-build it themselves, but they couldn’t figure out the code or something, cause they just put mine back up and asked me to provide Copyright info.

I directed them to info on the Berne Convention and India’s own Copyright Office… at which point they RENAMED the css and js files… without actually changing the code! Worst part is the CEO is being super-rude and claims to have done nothing wrong. I wonder if their partners at Intel and HP would feel the same?

Here’s snapshots of their code BEFORE they had a chance to change it. I’ve highlighted some points of interest.

Rip#2

volly.cn
Haven’t heard back from these clowns at all. Here’s the code (note that they copied my old Google Analytics code, which I am still tracking)

Rips #3&4

blacksunny.cn and imstar2.com
Note – Nov. 30th: blacksunny has taken his site offline and apologized…
Note – Dec. 8th: imstar2.com is finally gone too

This guy rips off my code to build his own site, and then mods it slightly for a buddy (see thumbnails). Even better? He’s using my name in his folder structure, and even has notes in his code referencing that he’s ripped the code from my site. I guess he needs to keep track of where he’s stealing all this code from:

There were about ten others, but since I’ve contacted them, most have taken their sites down.

Since this debacle, I’ve redesigned my site and am now offering that design as an open-sourced template; I figure that it’s  the easiest way to safeguard my Google Analytics code from future tampering… though nothing’s foolproof.

first the video:
Charlotte Gainsbourg feat. Beck – Heaven Can Wait

now the images from William Hundley’s Flickr:

now Hundley’s Flickr post after i emailed him the link to the video:

not only did Keith Schofield rip Hundley, but the whole video is rips of other works from fffound.com. Who needs to come up with new ideas when you can just use flickr or fffound?

Artist Jose Maria Cano copies Wall street journal staff illustrator’s work and claims it as his own.

Its the most blatant act of copying i have ever seen. I would not think that any gallery would want to touch this with a bargepole. He has actually copied Noli Novaks work dot for dot and then claimed it for his own. Novak is well known for doing a lot of the “Hedcut” stipple portraits in the journal.
José-María Cano’s set of images are called “The Wall Street 100″ collection. “taking” newspaper cuttings from the Wall Street Journal, the exhibits 100 large wax portraits depict people the artist deems are socio-politically powerful.

Spot the difference

His work is on sale at the Riflemaker gallery in London now:

Oh the irony!

He talks about the Financial industry “doing nothing” as part of his motivation.

Quote:
“The artist has a problem with those who get rich speculating. In his view, they “do nothing” besides shifting money at their computer, and are “creating billions — from where? From what?”
From this article:Bloomberg

From where? From what? is a good question Mr Cano.

Novak holding original artwork

You can get more details from her blog here:
http://hedcuts.blogspot.com/

It’s pretty obvious that The California Institute of Abnormalities (CIA) just photoshopped over and stretched the original beautiful poster for the New Orleans Burlesque Fest.

The Rip Off:

The Original:

Here is Scott Hansen’s original piece, titled “Progress” which can be found in his online store here.

And here is a poster promoting Scotch Tape’s new “Off the Roll Tape Sculpture Contest.” Website here featuring some jacked artwork, including a PDF link to the poster below.

I’m sure you’ve seen ads for Kingory popping up recently. They’re hard to miss and reek of a certain other online game’s indecent ad campaign. I was wary of Kingory going down the same road, so I researched and found a statement from one of the company’s team (by the name of Megan Liu) implying they had nothing to do with Evony or its product. For the moment, I was satisfied with that.

Now I am not so sure—or perhaps it is par for the course with these games.

Before, the ads featured a modestly clad, attractive Asian female, along with an all too familiar use of the word “lord”, the initial reason I associated the games with one another. But today, I was shocked to see a new Kingory ad—one using a picture of, no, not a scantily clad model or boob shot, but Chun-Li of Street Fighter fame.

Blatant theft?

As if it couldn’t get any worse, I followed the ad directly to the Kingory site, where they are using Chun-Li as the background to their login screen.

Really, Kingory? Really?

Better still, doing a simple Google image search brings up the same picture they are using in ads and on site (around the second page of image results).

I would keep an eye out for more theft from this site in the future, but for now, I can only hope Capcom will catch wind of this.

Edit: It seems like they have a new layout for their site, sans the Chun-Li art.

Also, the art apparently belongs to Artgerm, as posted on their deviantArt page.

Edit 11/9/09: My attention was brought to this—

They seem to have alternate links to their main site, which link to different versions of their homepage. Here is the one with Chun-Li, still existing, and this one, with Po from Kung-Fu Panda.