When you are creating, whether it’s an article, a movie, a song or a website, it’s important to keep in mind that proper handling out outside content is part of the creation process, not something you clean up after. Even if we accept Streamlabs answer at face value, it raises almost as many questions as it answers. In short, this is a mistake that not only should never be made, but one that should be impossible to make. At the very, very least this was incredibly sloppy and required a breakdown of design and writing conventions at multiple stages. While it might be handy to mock up a version that’s similar to a competitor for analysis or internal discussion, such a version should never be anywhere near a public-facing server. Though the images and names were changed, the rest was largely the same. Either someone at Streamlabs or contracted by them built the page and largely used the Lightstream page as a template, text and all. That said, it feels like that isn’t what happened here. However, it’s important to replace all the content that comes with a theme and not use any of the demo content. Websites are rarely built from scratch and many, including this one, rely on outside themes and elements as a foundation. This includes web developement.īut web development does bring its unique challenges. However, it’s a system that any creator can benefit from. It’s a process by which you physically separate the work you are creating from outside content. When it comes to students and authors, I’m a huge advocate of writing in cleanroom. The simple question that one asks Streamlabs is this: Even if the page used was never meant to go live, why did you create an offline version of it using the content and layout from Lightstream? Why was it ever used as a starting point at all, for any draft or version? This is such a common reason that, back in May 2020, I wrote an article about how your web developer can land you in legal trouble. When that happens, the most common reason given is that the site is “under construction” or “was not meant to be live”. This is usually done with a copyright notice, but, in some cases, is done by working directly with the site that uploaded the content. Over at CopyByte, one of my main jobs is removing plagiarized marketing copy such as what Streamlabs had on its site. While they moved quickly to rectify the problem, the fact that there was an issue at all needs a closer examination. However, while that explanation may be true, it is still not very compelling.

Lightstream team is great and we’ve reached out directly to them to apologize.- Streamlabs November 16, 2021 We removed the text as soon as we found out. Text on the landing page was placeholder text that went into production by error.

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