It's a trademark issue, not a copyright issue - and it's one that you would need to take up directly with the Theme Shop in question, under advisement of a lawyer. We do due diligence to help ensure that repository-hosted Themes don't trample the copyright OR trademark of other repository-hosted Themes, but can't and shouldn't try to police the entire Theme community.<div>
<br></div><div>Chip<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 8:56 AM, Chandra Maharzan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:maharzan@gmail.com" target="_blank">maharzan@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
To that, I have a theme called Cleanr in the repo, posted 3 years ago.<br>
Surprisingly, I just saw another Cleanr in one of the theme shops. I<br>
thought it was unique. :) Its hard to find a name nowadays. I guess<br>
theres not copyright or sort of things so not sure what to do.<br>
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On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 7:22 PM, Otto <<a href="mailto:otto@ottodestruct.com">otto@ottodestruct.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> I'd also suggest to them that perhaps they should choose a name<br>
> unlikely for anybody else to put in the repository in the future. If<br>
> they had named their theme "Infinity by PressCrew" in the style.css,<br>
> for example, then they probably wouldn't be having this issue.<br>
><br>
> Names should be unique, or namespaced, or prefixed, or something to<br>
> that effect. Avoid using generic names.<br>
><br>
> -Otto<br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
> On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 7:35 AM, Kirk Wight <<a href="mailto:kwight@kwight.ca">kwight@kwight.ca</a>> wrote:<br>
>> You've simply got a theme in the WP repo; there's nothing you have to do.<br>
>> The problem here really seems to be on PressCrew's end, and however it is<br>
>> they've implemented their theme updates.<br>
>><br>
>> It's great that you're willing to help them, but if their email is implying<br>
>> that you have to do something about it, that would be wrong.<br>
>><br>
>><br>
>> On 29 June 2012 06:58, Mike Dave <<a href="mailto:designcoralblog@gmail.com">designcoralblog@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>>><br>
>>> Thanks a lot Greg, i think it should work for PressCrew.<br>
>>> I am also waiting for some other opinions.<br>
>>><br>
>>> Just Thinking:<br>
>>><br>
>>> Should there be another check with theme-slug before checking the version<br>
>>> update in the WordPress core ?<br>
>>> Example: theme-slug AND author (or something else). It is just an idea, i<br>
>>> am not that it is acceptable or not.<br>
>>><br>
>>><br>
>>> On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 3:51 PM, Greg Priday <<a href="mailto:greg@siteorigin.com">greg@siteorigin.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>>>><br>
>>>> That one line should have been<br>
>>>><br>
>>>> unset($checked_data->response[$theme_base]);<br>
>>>><br>
>>>> On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 12:49 PM, Greg Priday <<a href="mailto:greg@siteorigin.com">greg@siteorigin.com</a>><br>
>>>> wrote:<br>
>>>> > I'd suggest you tell PressCrew to include code that intercepts and<br>
>>>> > removes theme update information.<br>
>>>> ><br>
>>>> > ===<br>
>>>> > add_filter('pre_set_site_transient_update_themes',<br>
>>>> > 'infinity_remove_update');<br>
>>>> ><br>
>>>> > function infinity_remove_update($checked_data) {<br>
>>>> > $theme_base = basename(get_template_directory());<br>
>>>> > unset($checked_data->response[]);<br>
>>>> > return $checked_data;<br>
>>>> > }<br>
>>>> > ===<br>
>>>> ><br>
>>>> > Somewhere in their functions.php should do the trick. They'd obviously<br>
>>>> > need to check that though.<br>
>>>> ><br>
>>>> > On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 12:32 PM, Mike Dave <<a href="mailto:designcoralblog@gmail.com">designcoralblog@gmail.com</a>><br>
>>>> > wrote:<br>
>>>> >> Hello Admin,<br>
>>>> >><br>
>>>> >> My Theme Infinity is available to public in WordPress Repo. I have<br>
>>>> >> submitted<br>
>>>> >> my theme by keeping the WordPress Guidelines in mind especially about<br>
>>>> >> name.<br>
>>>> >> I have searched the WordPress directory for the name "Infinity" and<br>
>>>> >> there<br>
>>>> >> was not any theme related to Infinity, so i decided to choose the<br>
>>>> >> name.<br>
>>>> >><br>
>>>> >> Now i have received an email from PressCrew and a part of email is as<br>
>>>> >> follows,<br>
>>>> >><br>
>>>> >><br>
>>>> >>> Congratulations on your Infinity WordPress Theme, it's looks great.<br>
>>>> >>> Sadly<br>
>>>> >>> there's a big issue that has popped up for our WordPress project that<br>
>>>> >>> has<br>
>>>> >>> the same name.<br>
>>>> >>> Our Infinity is also a free WordPress Theme and has been released<br>
>>>> >>> about a<br>
>>>> >>> year ago (<a href="http://infinity.presscrew.com" target="_blank">http://infinity.presscrew.com</a>). We've build a great<br>
>>>> >>> community of<br>
>>>> >>> users of the past year, and it has become a valuable tool our users.<br>
>>>> >>> Currently our theme is in beta 3 and thousands of people have<br>
>>>> >>> downloaded it.<br>
>>>> >>> Why am I telling you this? Because today all our users got prompted<br>
>>>> >>> to<br>
>>>> >>> update to a new version of Infinity through the WordPress dashboard.<br>
>>>> >>> We were<br>
>>>> >>> extremely confused because we had not pushed out any update (since<br>
>>>> >>> the theme<br>
>>>> >>> is not yet in the repo!). It turns out that it's actually WordPress<br>
>>>> >>> thinking<br>
>>>> >>> that your version of Infinity is the theme that's being used by our<br>
>>>> >>> users.<br>
>>>> >>> In practice this means that several of our users have accidently<br>
>>>> >>> overwritten<br>
>>>> >>> our theme with yours. I don't have to tell you the implications this<br>
>>>> >>> has for<br>
>>>> >>> our users.<br>
>>>> >><br>
>>>> >><br>
>>>> >><br>
>>>> >> So what you people suggest me about this issue.<br>
>>>> >> Waiting for response.<br>
>>>> >><br>
>>>> >> Take Care<br>
>>>> >><br>
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