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Missoulian code caper? Newspaper faces claims of website design theft

March 27, 2008 /

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Webscript used by the Missoulian’s online portal, Missoulian.com, closely matches that of another daily newspaper website, the Roanoke Times’ award-winning Roanoke.com. How closely? Up until recently, it was the same code.

A current screenshot of Roanoke.com, bottom, compared to one taken of Missoulian.com in late January. The local Lee Enterprises publication recently altered details of its website, but much of Roanoke.com’s original layout remains.

Notice of the conspicuous similarity initially appeared in January on the blog of Knoxville, Tenn., web developer Patrick Beeson, who once worked for Virginia’s Roanoke Times, which first employed the code more than two years ago. In the summer of 2006, Roanoke.com won top honors in an interactive media contest sponsored by Editor & Publisher Magazine.

By: Patrick Klemz

Full Story: http://www.missoulanews.com/index.cfm?do=article.details&id=ED294DF3-14D1-13A2-9F7B4AF0EF743EA1

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