Diddy rips off Pentagram
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- ukit0
lol
Where do you get the idea that having it read "sean john" when its obviously the same design makes it OK?
- ukit0
There's a difference between making an editorial cartoon (protected under fair use doctrine) and simply tracing another company's artwork and then selling it as your own.
- not.
the.
same.
artwork.neowe - sean john
seductionneowe - and you all thought I was badmonospaced
- not.
- neowe0
Uppercase i = I
Lowercase L = lwho to cry to now?
- neowe0
in regards to the McDonalds M...
something tells me seduction wasn't registered as a company with market intentions through uspto.gov so the artwork as a whole does not constitute a logomark representing company interests in any part of the world.
now if that same seduction were trademarked as a logotype for say a perfume or a clothing company, the company would have infringement rights to protect and possibly loss of revenue claims
but again as the word itself is wholly different it is no different than all the designs that look like the coca cola logo but do not say coca cola
also, in regards to the mcdonalds m, reminds me of this...
totally cheeky, but i always thought the bigger problem with this was the use of the trademarked tag line of i'm lovin' it
- from http://bpcares.co.uk…neowe
- there's no problem with parody and critisismDodecahedron
- but what does mcds have to do with an oil spill? seems derrogatoryneowe
- SteveJobs0
is it the same font?
if the font is the same, it's not a rip. it just looks like it becaue it's such a distinct font. redo both in helvetica and no one would ever notice.
- sureshot0
neowe isnt real. But he's the one.
- dbloc0
How Diddy do it?
- pango0
Let all go to p diddy's facebook and rant about it hopefully he will drop the design and start crowd sourcing only to be taken off an hour later.
It worked before. it will work again!
- neowe0
Cars like letterforms are exempt from copyright protection as they serve a utilitarian function. it's be like trying to say your company was the only one allowed to have 4 wheels or only one company manufacturing houses with windows. this is why you see clothing and furniture knock offs, there is no protection from them. how easy is it to find an aeron chair knockoff? or lighting and all the other trappings of life. these are utilitarian objects that no one person or entity can control
- babaganush0
Jesus...someone ripped someone here...
- kona0
awesome. it's good to know that i can identically duplicate another sites design, style, structure, graphics and format, but as long as i change the content i'm in the clear from it being a 'rip'.
- i should see a spike in my sites visitors right, about.... nowkona
- Finger point gun click.DRIFTMONKEY
- dbloc0
Diddy is Doody
- utopian0
Does anyone here actually wear anything from the hack Diddy in the first place?
- lambsy0
since some are saying it's not a rip. what if they took just the 'S' and the 'e' and put them on a shirt?
They are the exact letterforms copied from the poster. does the inclusion of a few different forms sprinkled in with the exact copied designs make it ok then?