Quote Originally Posted by Alhanelem View Post
Actually, I do have a clue about copyrights, and I'm not mixing anything up, but thanks for being insulting anyway.

In fact, what we are really dealing with here is better described as plagiarism.

This "owner" is commonly said to be the "copyright holder", which I described before.

A link to a similar looking image on google would not hold up in a court of law. You need to know who holds the copyright and provide them proof that it was infringed on so that they can pursue a case against the infringer.

No crap sherlock, I know this. But thanks for the unnecessary lesson. In the situation you describe,, it is up to the holder of the copyright to exercise his rights and bring a case against the infringer.

Yes, they did. It's up to them to either decide someones rights may be being infringed on, or up to the copyright holder to complain to SE to get the entry pulled. One of those two things needs to happen. somebody making a ruckus on a forum saying "this ring looks like that one!" is not really sufficient grounds for that. However, if someone wants to provide some real actual proof, or if the copyright holder wants to stop up, either of those parties should be contacting SE directly, not making a scene on a discussion forum.

This sentence is a bunch of garbledygook that doesn't make any sense. "it doesn't matter who made it first that it already exists" What? try making some sense before you attack others.

So... who's the one who doesn't know anything about this now?
That is such Nonsense.

1. Plagiarism is ONE form of copyright violation. As i said before, if i would be fluent in english i would go into Detail here.
2. It was not a "similiar" looking Picture, it is in fact identical. Not only in shape also in Color.
3. It is proof enough to show a identical allready existing design, to claim that the person who made the entry is not the copyright holder, which would disqualify that person allready.
4. It is nearly impossible that the original copyright holder would know about this content and would make tell SE to pull it out, unless he plays himself. That is the reason why there was an Agreement in the Content people agreed with. And especially the copyright part WAS WRITTEN IN CAPS, why do you think SE did that? Because SE is aware of the fact that certain people will ignore it and so they also said, if that will happen the Account can be suspended or banned. Right now people are showing SE that the said Design allready exist, or do you except the SE-Team to check every Ring on millions on different websites if it allready exist? People figured it, showed it to SE, now its on SE to decide what to do.

simply fact what the person did: Copied an allready existing Design. hurts copyright of "some person", if this person agree's with this or not, is way beside the Point. It was simply breaking the Rules of the Content.