Thursday, December 08, 2011

I was watching tv and flipped to the Judge Alex Show with a case already in progress. The case seem to be was between some kind of print company and a designer. The designer owed the company money but had a separate deal to create some logos for a group school sports teams. The designer point was that he didn't owe them money because he hadn't been paid for the 30 logos at $140 each. The company said they would never pay that much for logos especially when they could get the logos for FREE by searching for the artwork online. And that the logo banner only sell for $75 each. They then admitted to using around 8 of the logos.

The judge sided with the company since the designer  admitted to owing them money but didn't have a written contract about the logos. This really upset me because the judge totally ignored copyright law. If the designer didn't have written contract on the price of each logo, the company also didn't have written waver of the designers copyrights. They admitted to using several of the logos and to have the others that they could use at any time.

I say to the designer get proof of the logos they used sue their buts for copyright infringement. Taking a percentage of their profits from said sales.  Am I wrong to be angry? We designers have to look out for each other.

I believe this was, Season 7 Episode 48

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