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Jan 30 2006

Blame Canada!

Posted by Dave at 11:59 pm

So the old saying goes that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery…so I guess we should be flattered?

Take a look and see what you think.

Spot the difference?

Ooo…those dastardly Canadians. (Apart from the nice ones, obviously.)

Ann Little (Available to answer questions at larkinmarni@hotmail.com according to the WhoIs information) you should be ashamed of yourself!

Do your own design work next time guys!

(And just in case they should have a change of heart…here is the Google cache in all it’s glory.)

Update: To save you the trouble of clicking through, here are the two homepages for a side by side comparison:

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10 comments

John McCarthy

Posted on January 31st, 2006 at 3:32 am

Are you serious?

John McCarthy

Posted on January 31st, 2006 at 3:42 am

“No one backs their products and services like MOGO and we defy you to find a company that would even come close.”

Um… I can think of a few

© MOGO Financial Inc. 2006 All rights reserved.
MOGO is a registered trade mark of MOGO FInancial Inc.
——————————–
Dude what did MOGO copyright anyway? Fortunately you can take out $500 and only have to pay $600 back. I’m legitimately pissed.

Dave

Posted on January 31st, 2006 at 10:51 am

:-) Yeah - great rates aren’t they?

Pete

Posted on January 31st, 2006 at 8:17 pm

……..are your web site designers doing a bit of moonlighting??????????
Otherwise I would have thought that was copyright infringement if you hold the global coyrights to the front page.

Jack Yan

Posted on February 1st, 2006 at 1:03 am

Right, here’s what you do. You do have global copyright, and Canada is a signatory to the Berne Convention. Assuming you are first with this design, you should notify their host with the same information. Canada doesn’t have the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, but its existing copyright legislation is good enough. The host should be able to come to the same conclusion. If you are planning to sue, get in an expert to make a finding of “objective similarity”. This is submitted with your statement of claim in a Canadian court. I believe your defendant has to disprove the finding by producing draft drawings. It’s a very high standard of proof. I still would notify their ISP at the very least as copyright is global—the border has no effect on whether your copyright is recognized in Canada or not. Usual disclaimer: seek legal advice, blah blah blah, and I don’t need to stand by the above, etc.

Dave

Posted on February 1st, 2006 at 10:20 am

Thanks Jack - appreciate the suggestions very much. I’ll pass them onto our friendly in house lawyer, Mr Deane-Johns to see what he can do. There’s a cost benefit trade off here though - we could go after them with guns blazing, but that’s expensive. A stroppy letter is probably a good place to start - sounds like we have grounds…

Thanks to Johnnie Moore as well for picking it up in his blog!