Web site templates cause look-alike flap

An Australian business is being accused of copying its Web site from that of a Korean company--but it claims its site was built using free templates from the Internet. The small Australian broadband ISP Media Web has found itself in the centre of controversy after it was alleged the company had copied the design of its Web site from a Korean-based logistics company.

The issue highlights the potential legal minefield faced by companies which opt to build Web sites using prefabricated templates obtained via the Internet rather than start from scratch.

Media Web chief executive officer, Luke Connell, claimed to have obtained the Web site's template from a US-based company called Free Web Templates, and that any correlation between the design of the Media Web Web site and that used by Hankook Logitech was purely coincidental. Read the full story on ZDNet Australia