Website plagiarism – webdesign and code rip off
Hi,
We're Merix Studio - webdesign & web development agency from Poland.
We've launched a microste called World of Merix not a long time ago. Site itself got pretty popular (featured in quite many CSS Galleries and Web Design blogs). Soon after launch we tracked couple companies who used our concept as well as source code (html/css/javascript). Fortunatetly we managed to have plagiaries removed from the internet but we thought it would be good to keep (and show) samples 
Here we go:
Original
"made in China" (previously available on tun2.com - removed by now)
"made in Italy" (previously available on sicilianweb.it - removed by now)
Good luck with dealing with thieves.
The art of stealing
»Good customers pay, bad customers steal.« — Michael Koren, Graphic and Web Designer (* 1969)
The Factory-Berlin is an art association with headquarters in Berlin-Oberschöneweide. In 2007, I developed a new design for its web site with XHTML and CSS. The result was a clear, unobtrusive design based on a typographic grid.
I decided to make as few effects as possible. The artists should be use the site as a platform for the presentation of their works. In April last year, the new web site was launched. All were enthusiastic. This state of euphoria lasted about a year. Then suddenly changed the good working relationship, as I wanted for my creative work to be paid.
My business relationship with the Factory-Berlin has now an end. The reason was the lack of payment willingness of the customer. Since June 2008 there is a 1:1 copy of my original design on the Internet. Copyright? They don’t care!