{"id":12,"date":"2019-03-23T17:55:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-23T17:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.w3layouts.com\/?p=12"},"modified":"2022-07-18T18:15:15","modified_gmt":"2022-07-18T18:15:15","slug":"why-worlds-largest-and-indias-ruling-political-party-plagiarised-our-work-without-giving-us-credit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.w3layouts.com\/why-worlds-largest-and-indias-ruling-political-party-plagiarised-our-work-without-giving-us-credit\/","title":{"rendered":"How world\u2019s largest and India\u2019s ruling political party plagiarised our work without giving us credit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

w3layouts<\/a> \u2013 We are a small webshop Startup based out of Nellore, a small town in Andhra Pradesh. We build free premium quality HTML templates where anyone can download our designs and start their website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

BJP\u2019s official \u200bsite has been down<\/a>\u200b for a while. Yesterday, we were happy to see that they were back,<\/a> especially when we were told that they chose to use one of W3Layout\u2019s Template.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was bought to our notice by @ashishdevziners on twitter<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The design used by BJP was \u201cPeek<\/a>\u201d \u2013 a Landing Page Bootstrap Responsive Web Template built by W3Layouts, which can be found here<\/a>. While the design is free to use, it includes a backlink. A small link at the end of the page, which indicates that the design was \u201cdesign by W3Layouts\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Build your website using our free WEB designs<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

We, at W3Layouts<\/a>, were initially happy and excited that BJP IT cell was using our template, then devastated to see our work being used by BJP removing the backlink without paying, and giving no credit whatsoever to W3Layouts<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If one wishes to remove the backlink, W3Layouts website provides an option to buy the credit for the removal of the backlink by paying Rs 600. (~USD $9).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the visible backlinks were removed, it was clear that BJP was still using the W3Layouts code as it was evident in the source code of the page.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After we created an archive of their website at archive.org,<\/a> we took the issue to BJP\u2019s notice through Twitter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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@BJP4India<\/a> please ask your team to read the license terms https:\/\/t.co\/1Uagn4FGjr<\/a> before removing "designed by w3layouts"?
Please provide your IT Team Email id will have a word.<\/p>— W3layouts (@W3Layouts) March 22, 2019<\/a><\/blockquote>