What do you say, when you realise other people take credits for your work? We have found few examples of the thieves that just copy our web pages, choreographies and music.

Part of my job, as the sales and PR manager, is keeping an eye on our competitors. Is there anything they do better than us? Did they make a mistake we can learn from? However, I often find groups that just copy our choreography, music, pictures, or even full articles from our webpage.

Why do they do it?

I thought about this a lot and tried to look at it from various angles, and I realized something about the plagiarizing and our competitors. I think it’s best explained with an example:

Take the smartphone market. One of the most innovative brands is Apple, with their iPhone.

Every time Apple shows a new model, other companies try to copy them. They end up with products that look like iPhone, but are much worse in terms of functionality and quality.

So, my conclusion is that we are doing our job very well, because a lot of groups try to copy us, just like in the smartphone market other brands copy the best possible phone – iPhone.

Let’s show you some examples.

Text copy

Screenshot of our website www.trondance.com – “Main benefits of complete system”: Wi-Fi controls, LSS software, synchronization, SD-card mode, change in real time and spin on your head
Picture 1 Our webpage www.trondance.com where we wrote this text 4 years ago.
Screenshot of led-clothing.com – the same “Main benefits of complete system” with the same six points and texts as on our website
Picture 2 www.led-clothing.com has got such an original text. They are so creative in China, don’t you think?

Spanish company

LEDsuits.com went even further – they copied full javascript, not just text (this means they essentially copied and stole our entire webpage)

Screenshot of ledsuits.com/ledsuits-2/ – Spanish page “Controladores LED suits” with pictures of our main Ethernet controller and LED suit receiver
Screenshot of ledsuits.com/ledsuits-2/ – Spanish page “Fuentes de alimentación” with pictures of our battery charger and battery
Screenshot of ledsuits.com – Spanish page “Software del controlador” with our picture of a laptop running LED Strip Studio
Screenshot of our website www.trondance.com – “Buy Tron Dance suit”, the Control software tab with the same laptop picture of LED Strip Studio and the same texts
This thief you can find: www.ledsuits.com/ledsuits-2/ on the right side is our webpage www.trondance.com

Another experts

Screenshot of another website – “Tron Dance setup” with pictures of wireless DMX controllers, a laptop with our LED Strip Studio software and an LED dancer
Picture These guys “borrowed” from us text, picture and even choreography

Choreography plagiarism

In this section, we will show you some examples of choreography copyrights and some groups that are missing any creativity of their own.

Again, the same song, just a little bit faster but another group.Videos play from YouTube or Vimeo, which may store cookies once you press play.

Another example of false copyright. We own the full license to this song and it’s our intellectual property. Obviously, doesn’t matter in some countries.

And the last one, this crew was so good they copied not just part of our choreography, but dances from three different Tron Dance groups, to mix ‘their own’ choreography.

Our song starts at 2:20.Videos play from YouTube or Vimeo, which may store cookies once you press play.

This was just a couple of examples; I think there’s a lot more out there, only we haven’t found them yet.

What do you think about copyright & how other groups think they can just take your music, copy your choreography and sell it by themselves?