Ripping/Copying
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- Anders0
From obeythepurebreed:
http://jitcrunch.cafepress.com/j…
- Anders0
http://obeythepurebreed.com/
!!!Billy Childish does Van Gogh
http://www.bbc.co.uk/collective/…
- neverblink0
- click the imageneverblink
- Doesn't take much creativity, does it? It's a concept that wants to be copiedAnders
- Anders0
I leave you with this:
http://www.iamgonnacopy.com/
- OSFA0
Well my dear firends, it is with great pleasure, that I share some good news with ya'll. (of course for those who care)
After sending a nice cease and desist letter and personally contacting (and ripping a new one) the CEO of the company that thought it would be wise to use unauthorized material that I created, I received the track# for my overnight payment. Thanks for all your help and support and damn! it feels good....Sorry for the interruption....
- Anders0
This thread has officially failed :-/
- OSFA0
quick update for those who care...
I contacted an attorney and explained the situation. He recommended that I copyright my intellectual work since I am the author (have to have it copyrighted before filing for a lawsuit). Once I do that, I can proceed with legal action and receive 5-150 grand depending on case if it is proven that it was an infringement. Oh, and that I need to send a cease and desist letter inmediately requesting them to bring down the site.
- Chimp0
Some has ripped my T-shit Label off! I thought I had an orginal name!
Mine:
http://www.labradorclothing.com/…
Them:
http://www.labradortshirts.be/What do you think I should do?
- Anders0
Beatles: Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
http://isolation.tv/photos/image…
Devendra Banhart: Cripple Crow
- 1pxsolid0
google?
- OSFA0
Thanks man, that is exactly what I am doing. I am sending them the original estimate, the outstanding invoice, and the original links that show my design concepts and proposal -oh, and that include a nice disclaimer at the bottom indication they are for poresentation purposes only and that all rights are reserved along with a nice and polite email requesting them to reply within 24 hour and bring down the site until payment has been made and permission granted. I will keep you guys posted...
- akrokdesign0
OSFA,
what they have done is broke the copyright law. as you "the artist" has the right to the art work. and not the client.
so...
I would send them the invoice for work upto the date. And tell them if they do not pay, they are required to take down the site as they are breaking the copyright law.
- OSFA0
Fukc, I'm too pissed to even think, I guess I can send a cease and desist letter to the company, him, and any other contact I have such as accounting dept, etc. Any ideas on how to create a good c&d letter? I was also thinking about forwarding the invoice we had presented them as 'estimate' for payment to the accounting dept. since they decided 'to move forward' and use the concepts provided by us. That will at least get the accounting dept on his ass...
- OSFA0
so, any advice on what should I do tomorrow morning regarding this company? We provided them some samples of what their site would look like but then they said 'they were not ready to move forward' and never got back to us. Three months later I check their site and it is a complete rip of our concept. I am pissed! Do I have any rights on this? What are my legal alternatives in order to either get paid or have them bring down the site and come up with their own design?
- wow. that takes a lot of nerve._salisae_
- Tell me about it, the scumbag (CEO) disconnected the number he gave me a while back.OSFA
- I'm sorry that sucks. I'm not sure there's a legal way of protecting comps and samples? How would that work in a contest e.g.? comps=risk?Corvo
- ... contest? There's a risk in every proposal. I don't know how you can avoid it.Corvo
- a Cease & Desist contract would work but that'd be crazy coz no rational client would compromise with a comp.Corvo
- unless they would sign it after comp approval - with a cease an desist option on their part. which would need contract too.Corvo
- a snowball of contract and failing guarantees.Corvo
- skt0
I ripped a dereksworlds splash page once. Wasn't very creative though.
- Anders0
The Designers Republic 'ripped off' a lot of japanese pop culture icons to tell a message. For the positive examples, maybe we should call it an influence, inspiration, sampling..
Copying is interesting, especially when it involves the hands of a human being and not just a computer. When there is a real brain involved. What interests me is that you can see 100 of similarities in the print design that gets featured here on this site and many other design portals or blogs.
Maybe some of them are simply copying some ideas from another source, but mostly the end result is still interesting – which then inspires other people to copy that. There is a lot of this in the graphic design that goes around online and what goes around, really goes around..
If that many designers feed off design to make design, then maybe for design's sake we should believe in the good of copying?- The design community that lays together, stays together.Anders