The Style Archive: For Movable Type, TypePad and LiveJournal

They say that "imitation is the best form of flattery." If that is true then participants in The Style Contest will be "flattered" to learn that many of their designs have been copied and replicated for Blogger users as well. This is not necessarily a "bad thing," but we want you to know nevertheless.

Because we at Six Apart and the organizers of The Style Contest felt strongly that the designs created by its participants should be owned and copyrighted by the participant themselves, the responsibility of protecting your intellectual property falls sqaurely and exclusively on your shoulders. So, if anyone feels that their design is [ever] being used without their express permission, then you need to file an official DMCA Copyright Infringement Notification with the service provider hosting the content, which in this case is Google.

But perhaps the spread of the Six Apart HTML "standard" into Blogger will help the industry more than hurt it, by spurring more designers to create even more themes and styles compatible with the standard. I think this development is a great endorsement for what The Style Contest is all about: CSS centered design, and the need for a more widely adopted HTML standard for blog templates.