This is great, but does anyone know what the current status of the actual DMCA takedown is? Has LayerVault rescinded the takedown? What a ridiculous ordeal this is.
I'm curious about this. Is it on a company-vs-company basis? Or could LayerVault just file another DMCA takedown notice challenging a different aspect?
Say LayerVault filed notice on file A, which made github remove the repo for 10 working days from counter-notice. When back up, they file notice on file B, etc. Would this be possible?
It would be nice if one of the parties of all this would put up a blog post explaining what happened (behind the scenes) and the conclusion to it all (how/why it's back up). It would be nice to see how it was all resolved and the outcome, whether it was good or bad.
I'm not saying it's right, but it does feel scummy. If you think about it, it feels way less scummy to just ask for money. Asking for a tweet is like saying, here you can have this free thing if you degrade your friends' experience on twitter by a tiny amount first.
Do it a bunch and it adds up.
Whereas me paying someone one dollar doesn't degrade all of my friends' twitter streams.
I know I don't want to read people's "free stuff" tweets. I'd rather they didn't show up in my feed. I only want to read recommendations when they are genuine. Not when they were required.
I deleted my Twitter account, so when people do this, I can't even use it to try to promote it - no less the argument that I'm not going to promote something I haven't even used. People do this all the time on Dribbble and it's really frustrating.
I certainly don't mind tweeting to show my support. This is the first time I've seen tweet-to-download. I may actually use it myself to give users access to an upgrade of my game (for a limited time) that would usually cost $10.
slmt, you've been hellbanned, nobody can see your posts (unless they have showdead on). since it looks like you're a new user, just make a new account - and try not to make any more posts like this until you've been around awhile and proven you aren't a troll:
I didn't see any such requirement, simply clicking on the <down arrow>zip icon gave me a zip. github dot com slash designmodo slash Flat hyphen UI slash archive slash master dot zip
Good, LayerVault was really just fishing for some free ads.
None of LV's claims are true, the graphics is different. You cannot copyright an inspiration and not like LV were first there anyway. A lot of their gfx was inspired by some other work.
I missed it it seems. I saw comparison pictures [1] of the Layervault logos and the Flat-UI logos without spotting a single copy. I'm sure you have a source for your claim?
Did you miss the part where they didn't? Here is a comparison of Layer Vault, Flat UI, and The Noun Project which preceded LV and Flat UI: http://imgur.com/IH1osAD
Hey small world. I heavily regret not working on the site more, but when Lolking came out with tons of funding from the Curse network, I figured I couldn't compete against a team of programmers and designers working on it full time. I could only work on the site for a few hours in the weekends at best.
My brother and I are currently working on a similar site for another game, this time putting into practice all the good things I've learned along the way. We won't quit this time.
I came across the artwork of Ben Wiseman[1] yesterday, and it struck me how similar in style and color his work is to a lot of the flat designs in question.
However, my experiences with art and artists would lead me to believe that most of them wouldn't even be aware with what to do with a DMCA notice. It's concerning to see such a ham fisted tactic trickling its way through culture.
The idea[2] of issuing a takedown of the Art Institute of Chicago is both funny but also troubling because it's bound to happen sooner or later.
You gotto love the answer "I definitely feel your frustration. The tone of this topic is not in line with the civil level of discourse I'd like to maintain here, so I cannot respond."
User is (rightly) pissed. Less piss him some more.
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[ 4.3 ms ] story [ 122 ms ] thread[1]: https://github.com/github/dmca/commit/6a33a213e04e7fc5e74ce3...
Say LayerVault filed notice on file A, which made github remove the repo for 10 working days from counter-notice. When back up, they file notice on file B, etc. Would this be possible?
EDIT: Technically, it's 10-14 business days, and today's the 10th business day.
waiting for pro version of Flat UI - http://designmodo.com/flat/
LV get free advertising from this process... i think this is just a wrong step from LV...
I'm not saying it's right, but it does feel scummy. If you think about it, it feels way less scummy to just ask for money. Asking for a tweet is like saying, here you can have this free thing if you degrade your friends' experience on twitter by a tiny amount first.
Do it a bunch and it adds up.
Whereas me paying someone one dollar doesn't degrade all of my friends' twitter streams.
I know I don't want to read people's "free stuff" tweets. I'd rather they didn't show up in my feed. I only want to read recommendations when they are genuine. Not when they were required.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5164228
None of LV's claims are true, the graphics is different. You cannot copyright an inspiration and not like LV were first there anyway. A lot of their gfx was inspired by some other work.
You could argue that Flat UI's icons were derivative works taking inspiration from LayerVault, but they were certainly not direct copies.
[1] : http://imgur.com/IH1osAD
https://github.com/iurevych/Flat-UI
and 133 did off of this:
https://github.com/designmodo/Flat-UI
It shows solidarity :)
Back then my brother and I were huge LoL fans and we decided to build a fansite for the game.
You can see it here (it's no longer active):
http://web.archive.org/web/20120506035929/http://www.oracleo...
We used Twitter bootstrap for our UI and that other site whined that we copied their style. When they were just using the default styles.
/LoL player here as well
Nevertheless, funny story, I realized it was just bootstrap and it looked quite decent
My brother and I are currently working on a similar site for another game, this time putting into practice all the good things I've learned along the way. We won't quit this time.
I for one can't stop playing LoL ~
However, my experiences with art and artists would lead me to believe that most of them wouldn't even be aware with what to do with a DMCA notice. It's concerning to see such a ham fisted tactic trickling its way through culture.
The idea[2] of issuing a takedown of the Art Institute of Chicago is both funny but also troubling because it's bound to happen sooner or later.
1: http://work.ben-wiseman.com
2: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5405692
User is (rightly) pissed. Less piss him some more.