Have you ever stolen someone else's design?

I used to look for family photos online to use as stock photography for publications. I don’t remember, though if I found any worth using.

When I was in high school i was stupid enough to volunteer myself to maintain the school’s marching band website, even though I didn’t know anything more than basic html and was using AOLpress to do the editing. I had saw a neat layout that i didn’t think the author wouldn’t mind having copied, and copied the html file. Everything else i changed, but the basic tables layout and code i couldn’t use myself was borrowed.

It took about a week before I got a legalese threat.
Looking back, that was pretty douchebaggish on both our parts. Simply asking it to take it down to a 15 year old should have sufficed. It scared the crap out of me.

Never. Inspired by other’s designs all the time – but not to the point of theft.

“Good artists copy, Great artists steal” – iPodrulz
Truth is, I usually only steal ideas, and concepts. But I twist and turn them and the original idea turns out to be an inspiration.

@ipoddrulz! where u living? ur point sounds like some Chinese belief!

@stephen
The quote you mean? It was sorta a joke. Pablo Picasso was actually the original say..-er. And if you wanna know, I say I’m Canadian.

ok, i just curious! thanx for ur answer,actually design-stolen things happen in anywhere i think!