Dear Amanda,
I started talking to a new blogger, and she ended up copying my exact theme, down to the font (which I changed myself. It wasn’t the default.) should I say something? – Brigid
Dear Brigid,
Dealing with a copycat is the WORST. The entire IFB team has had some kind of issue with copycatting and it is not only frustrating but tiresome. Before answering your question, my first question to you would be: did you create this them all on your own? Or did you purchase it from another source? If you created this theme all on your own (nicely done, by the way!), you definitely have rights to your theme. You can email a Cease and Desist letter (a legal order stating that the user stop whatever activity he/she is doing) to the blogger stating that you own the rights to that theme, you never granted permission to the bloggers to use your theme, and that he/she needs to stop using it.
Side note: If you purchased it from a theme developer, technically the theme developer has the rights and the license for the actual theme. If this is the case, you can send a helpful email to the theme developer and he/she will go on from there. Developers are very quick to take action against those who their work without purchasing a license.
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Love this article. Forwarding to a couple of people. I have had people still my interview questions verbatim among other things and have several other disgruntled fashion blogger friends. Love this advice.