When someone works very hard on something and adds a copyright, or has intellectual property, an honest person respects that. A dishonest person steals it.
Morals. You either have them or not.
When a dog breeder steals, you can bet that their dishonesty filters down to the puppies they sell. It’s a given. Dishonest people who lie about what they have produced (a lie of theft and reproduction), they will absolutely lie to you about what you’re getting. Keep that in mind when I add people to this page. I don’t take people to court for theft, my time is far more important. I just point them out to the public, and let the public decide on their own. Remember, a dishonest person is dishonest in all they do. Imitation may be the sincerest form of flattery, but where theft is involved, replication of someone’s work is not.
So, from time-to-time, people send me images or pages stolen from us. They’re listed below with full disclosure for you to see the evidence and weigh it for yourself. *Many* people have asked permission to use images we have created, and may have asked to use our articles as a reference. We always give some sort of permission, even if that only includes permission to link to our pages. Sometimes, it’s permission to reprint with credit, and sometimes to print out for their own use. We’re pretty fair and easy about it.
This page is dedicated to people who lack imagination and either stole our work outright, or misrepresented themselves to us when asking permission. When their misdeeds are corrected, they’ll be paroled.
Enjoy!
Here is a link to the coat color page I created in 1998:
http://blueknightlabs.com/color/coatcolor.html
It is the most commonly pilfered material from our website.
The Wayback Machine is a great tool in proving how long one has had work on the Web. This works for the Intellectual Property owner, as it tells you when material was added to a website (both intllectual property owner and not):
Wayback machine
Dishonorable Mention:
This person changed it enough to make it hard to say it’s theft of Intellectual Property, but boy, is it more than familiar: LAGUNA LABRADORS
RESOLVED CASES (Parole earned)
It seems the following people did not understand that when another person sets up your website, you’re responsible for the intellectual property violations they put on it! Remember, if you ask someone to cut down the tree in your yard, and that tree lands on a neighbor’s house, YOU are responsible. Ignorance of the law is not an excuse that will hold up in court.
To Degel Labradors & Golden Retrievers (www.degellabradors.com/)
On Mon, 16 Sep 2024 at 10:28 AM Dian Welle <blueknightlabradors@gmail.com> wrote:
I sometimes give permission for people to link to my color chart, and occasionally to an image from the page, but you have stolen my entire chart.
Please remove it from your site.
Dian Welle
She responded:
On 9/15/2024 5:41 PM, <xxxxxxx@xxxx.com> wrote:
Hi Dian
I got it off someone many years ago.
I don’t even know who you are.
Regards Amanda
I appreciate her removing the 12 year (as it turns out) use of our property. She stated she had clicked on the links within it, and saw that it went to our site (with all of the copyright notices in big letters), but she had no idea who I was, or that it was mine (I’m not sure how who I am mattered). It mattered.
I initially took down all of the supporting data from this encounter, because she removed the link and the page, but then went into online bashing of me and two days of private messages where she called me everything but decent for ruining her “reputation”, and made rude comments, then had a friend bully me online, I need to document.
She has deleted it now, but for documentation,
this is the Wayback Machine record of the page as she had it:
https://web.archive.org/web/20240425042823/www.degellabradors.com/colour-chart.asp
For comparison ours is here:
http://blueknightlabs.com/color/coatcolor.html
Thanks to Graves Labradors for removing the coat color chart. In this instance where we were asked if our page could be used for “inspiration” for their own. Sure – using a page as “inspiration” is cool, but please give us credit. Well… that’s not quite how it turned out. Initially, our entire site was screenshot, and they were called on it. So, they substituted the artwork, but again, used the HTML and entire layout. They did, indeed, get permission for “inspiration”, and we did have communication, but “inspiration” does not mean complete reproduction.
Be very careful about “borrowing” the work of others on the Internet, as Internet property violations are easily found and proven.
Our Coat Color Inheritance chart (http://blueknightlabs.com/color/coatcolor.html) was created in 1998.
It was first archived by the Internet Archive “Wayback Machine” in 2001:
