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My Homepage Text Copied By A Fellow Filipino Designer

Posted on April 5, 2008 @ 3:36 am under Blah! Blah! Blah! by Romelo Itong - 2,844 views

Today, while I was blog hopping, I read an article about protecting your website’s content specially written content from being copied and used by someone other than yourself. The article has a link to Copyscape which is a website that provides services to protect your own website from online plagiarism and content theft.

While I was there, I decided to try it. I used their search to look for copies of my website’s content and, unfortunately, I did find one.

I found my homepage text, which I have  been using since 2005, at a fellow Filipino designer’s website namely jmolde.com. The text is:

Website Design services are as common as the common cold but those who caters to small/medium enterprises, start-ups, NGOs and individuals are still very rare. This is where I come in.

I will design you a website at a fraction of the cost of what your normal design agency charges. It’s fast, inexpensive and you work directly with the designer himself.

I am a web designer based in the Philippines with more than 5 years experience designing websites both for local and international businesses.

Upon looking at his profile I learned that his name is Joseph Alinadel Molde of San Pedro, Laguna. He is also a web designer and based on his job experiences, which are posted at his site, he had some good experiences as a web designer already. In fact, he might be earning much more than me but what I can’t understand is why, an established web designer like him, copy and use text from my website? Is my text copy that good?

I’m not a copywriter but at least I try to write my own copy myself. I’ve been using that particular copy since 2006 (even earlier, I’ll have to check) and I never thought that it’s good enough to be copied and used by someone else. To be honest, I don’t know if I should feel flattered, insulted or ripped off.

Web Archive of www.ROMELO.com 2005
(Web Archive of www.ROMELO.com 2005)

My homepage text at jmolde.com
(What’s my copy doing on this website’s homepage?)

Web Archive of www.ROMELO.com 2006
(Another version of www.ROMELO.com in 2006)

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5 Responses to “My Homepage Text Copied By A Fellow Filipino Designer”

  1. 4Avatars v0.3.1 Ambo

    That’s an issue of plagiarism, but sad to know how are we going to combat this problem. You have to admit that you are totally pissed off and this guy should be punished. Try to contact him and tell him to remove the copied articles. If not, threaten him. lol

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  2. 4Avatars v0.3.1 Geboy

    Hi Romelo. I’ve read your article and its quite sad that these things are happening specially on the field of website design. What can I say, its really a form of plagiarism. Try to research about Creative Commons and GPL so you can have some idea on what to do about this problem. Also, watch out for that guy, coz if he can copy the text from your site, he can also copy your layout and design on some of your works and project websites.

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  3. 4Avatars v0.3.1 ramseypogi

    oo nga eh. kopyang kopya. hanep!

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  4. 4Avatars v0.3.1 JayJay

    Asus. Wala kang katibayan. Baka nga ikaw pa ang nangopya eh

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    4Avatars v0.3.1gc

    May screenshot kaya si Romelo na si jmolde ang nangopya

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