Apple Infringes on Copyright

Apple is notorious for keeping tabs on its Intellectual property, their crack team of legal ninjas isn't too shy to send off ream after ream of cease and desist orders to various Apple related websites (though not TUAW, yet. I hear Apple has its collective corporate eye on C.K.).

This knowledge makes  Arvse Bersvendsen's story all the more surprising. Arvse authored a tutorial on creating rounded corners using CSS, which many people found useful, including Apple it would seem.

Arves plunked in some text from that tutorial into Copyscape, a plagiarism search engine, and he got one hit, from Apple. It seems Apple included his tutorial, and images he created for that tutorial on a Webcore developers website. Arves was flattered, and then a little peeved since Apple was using his work without crediting him. He fired off an email to Apple informing them of the issue, and they removed the offending files. However, Arves was hoping for some credit, or an apology both of which Apple has not given him.

Apple, come on, if you want people to honor your copyrights you have to play the game as well.