Dear
Visitors,
It is said
that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. In the world of
Bali Hardwood Homes (the Bali Wood "World" which is the center of
Prefab
Housing fabrication in Indonesia where it all happens), there are a
number of knock-off
companies that feel that our designs are the ones to imitate. Of
course, buyers should be aware that copying the external appearance of a
design does not mean that someone who lacks formal engineering training
would properly copy the important details such as the structural
connections, beam sizing and truss design (in particular for hurricane
prone areas).
Our web site is frequently targeted by newcomers who ruthlessly copy
text and/or copy copyrighted pictures from our web site as to use them
in their own web site.
In
addition our innovative web site and prefab building ideas are
frequently taken advantage of and employed by others to imitate us. So
be it, we feel flattered at least and we apologize for the fact that you
may consider us a bit protective (for a good reason, we guess).
However, If you wish to
copy text, a picture or a plan from our web site solely for private
purposes, please do so.
You may have a look at the list on the bottom of this page to see
the offenders. We take plagiarism very seriously.
INTERNATIONAL COPY PROTECTION RIGHTS.
Due to constant plagiarism in the past
whereas pictures, drawings and text were copied at random from our web site
and used without our consent on other web sites we have protected our site
as follows:
All pictures and drawings
on our web site are copyright protected via a digital hidden watermark using Digimarc ®
Picture Marc technology. We strongly advise not to copy or print any
picture and/or drawing. A patented tracking option is embedded in
the picture or drawing which will report any copyright infringement to
Digimarc's ® Registry while tracking the e-mail address or URL to
which our picture or drawing was downloaded. As such it is a simple
procedure to know who copied or
printed the picture or drawing without our consent to his/her web site. This will protect us
from unauthorized use of our copyrighted pictures and drawings.
All of our pages are also
protected by
against web site contents
(text) infringement.
Plagiarism will be detected by COPYSCAPE ® and made known to
us.
In the event of plagiarism
and depending on the degree of the infringement we will
implement one or both of the actions described in the bullet points below:
If you need proof of
infringement, you may use the
Internet Archive to
verify that the contents appeared on our web site at an earlier date than it
appeared on the offending web site.
Below an overview of
copyright infringements since the first launching of our web site
|
Event |
No. |
Copied text and/or picture(s) removed by offender after action was
taken by us. |
| Number of copies of text, pictures and/or plans from our Prefab house
pages or part thereof found as per last modified date: |
29 |
28 (1) |
| |
|
|
|
Number of copies of text, pictures and/or plans from our Gazebos page or part thereof found as per last
modified date: |
46 |
45 (1) |
| |
|
|
| (1) One offender who did not comply with our request
to remove our contents from their web site was immediately removed from the Google and
Yahoo search engines based on proven plagiarism.
Offending sites:
http://www.tropic-house.furniture-craft.com/catalog-wooden-gazebo.html
This offender has
meanwhile launched a completely new web site. No copies from our web
site further appear
http://www.gazeboasia.com
This offender has
removed the pictures which were copied from our web site without our
consent.
http://www.gazebo-garden.com
This offender has copied
a large amount of text taken from our gazebo page without our
permission. Not willing to delete. As a result their web site
will soon be banned from all search engines very soon.
http://www.perfabricated-java-gazebos.com
This offender has copied
a large amount of text taken from our gazebo page without our
permission. Not willing to delete. As a result their web site will
soon be banned from all search engines very soon. |
|
|
As you may have
understood we
take plagiarism very, very serious. Don't let your URL appear in the box
above.
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