Designer gets accused of stealing his own work and billed $18,000

Post by RiderOfGiraffes » Mon, Apr 06, 2009, 9:38 AM UTC

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Post by kwamenum86 » Mon, Apr 06, 2009, 1:07 PM UTC

tesseract wrote: post #23

kwamenum86 wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You would only trademark a logo if you plan on associating it with your company and you don't want any other company to use the same or similar artwork in their identifying artwork.

You could trademark it and then license the trademark to companies that you want to allow to use it. This is pretty common. Some reasons I can think of for this kind of arrangement: * Parent companies licensing their trademarks to subsidiaries. * Unrelated companies using similar names who enter into an arrangement where one owns the trademark and the other licenses it. E.g. Tyco International/Tyco Toys, ITT Corp/ITT…

Post by flatline » Mon, Apr 06, 2009, 3:05 PM UTC

dkokelley wrote: post #25

If the images are infact his then he has an easy counter-suit for copyright infringement. If StockArt is found to have sold images that were stolen then they owe the original artist the value of what they've sold the art for. Come to think of it, this is pretty risky for StockArt. They are betting quite a lot that they win. If they don't win, they lose - big time. They may end up wishing they had never brought it up…

Post by dminor » Mon, Apr 06, 2009, 3:26 PM UTC

dave_au wrote: post #26

mechanical_fish wrote: post #8

So the big question is: I've invented a logo. Where do I submit it, along with my identifying information, in order to get a certification (backed up by something that will hold up in court, like a notary's signature) that I uploaded and claimed it on a specific date? One obvious answer is "The US Copyright Office": http://www.copyright.gov/eco/index.html But that's $35 per registration. Seems like one of those onlin…

I've considered something like an electronic notary system a number of times over the years. I can imagine having a URL like http://[known and trusted e-notary].com/[user]/[date]/[file or md5sum] would do a lot to discourage any shennanigans. It wouldn't serve the same purpose as having something actually notarized so you'd have to be clear about that, but it could be a source of evidence when a case went before a co…

Post by jcl » Mon, Apr 06, 2009, 5:33 PM UTC

gscott wrote: post #13

In this case I would suggest creating a "sucks" website for the company in question to shame them. It has been upheld by the court system as a 100% legal thing to do... (for examples see paypalsucks.com and riaasucks.com)