Comments on: Spec work hackery redux. More of our work copied & entered into 99designs logo design contest

By: rococo queen

rococo queen — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 14:13:12 +0000

Flash news! the world is changing rapidly, don’t be surprise when you found yourself doing spec work.. (or maybe as a client asking for spec work) business is business afterall

By: indignant

indignant — Sun, 30 Jan 2011 10:34:51 +0000

Jamie, your voting system is ridiculous. Do you actually think that allowing competitors to vote on whether or not a design is infringing on a person’s copyright would negate copyright law? This is the failure method at logomyway where they have “designers” with up to 30 copyright violations STILL submitting designs with Joe Daley’s blessings. For your information, that is infringement with intent to profit. Why on earth would a crowdsourcing site even allow known infringers to even vote? I know that 99designs is very well known for allowing copying, but I have looked into both sites and logomyway is far worse. Daley proudly displays the number of disputes of copied work right there on the designer’s portfolio. It just screams “Hey look, I copied 30 designs (that I got caught at and I am STILL submitting and winning”.

By: ryan

ryan — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 08:50:36 +0000

yeah, im totally agree with you derived.
respect us

By: ryan

ryan — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 08:48:01 +0000

Hi jason,

your web is sucks, a lot of your designer copying logo around the sites. Dont be stupid and let them always copying. give a respect for us.

By: Jamie

Jamie — Sat, 11 Sep 2010 03:39:48 +0000

Hi Steve.

I know you’re not a fan of these websites but I would like to mention that we have taken the IP theft issue very seriously when building our new website http://www.klick360.com. We allow any registered user to report a violation on the fly which locks out that design within the contest page and remains clearly visible to all registered users and cannot be chosen as a winner. Then registered users can vote on that design right within the contest page with a “yes” or “no”. Only the client/buyer can unlock the design. The person that reports the issue has their name and the nature of the violation reported in plain view in the comments section at the bottom of the contest page.

We know it is difficult to prevent IP violation theft 100% but we strongly believe our system is heading in the right direction.

Regards
Jamie

By: Steve Douglas

Steve Douglas — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 14:52:51 +0000

Inspiration is fine. These logos are exact clones of the majority of the original. Innovative ideas do not come from knocking off other people’s work I’m afraid. That sort of misses the point about being innovative.

By: Six19 Creative Web Design

Six19 Creative Web Design — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 13:37:26 +0000

It couldn’t be the case of Copied Design. People always see the design for inspiration & innovative ideas. This might the point to create new design from old design concept or get the new idea from old design. I don’t think so 99design do this stuff, Not at all. Always think twice before blaming anyone.

By: derived

derived — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 23:47:51 +0000

Jason,
If i were you or the owner of 99designs i would do the following:
-do a trusted / verified sign up using real names and credentials
-take a very serious and professional approach regarding the copyright infringements. I have forwarded you a couple of reports in the past and i only received some stupid e-mails saying that although you can see that they are similar you cannot take any further action because according to 99designs rules this is not a violation. How stupid should someone be to say such a derailed affirmation in a copyright infringement?
-take an account filtering and keep the best designers on board.
Right now even there are too many designers coming from countries where a law pursuit regarding any copyright infringement could not take place due to the country laws instability or simple because you want to ignore completely this issue and move on with your commissions cut from the contest launching fees.
-at 100.000 designers you need a couple of floors full of 99design staff to stay in touch with the submissions, keep the forums calm and BAN rapid / quick smart ass designers doing bad things with logos that are not even theirs. Do you have those couple of floors full of people?
- CHANGE your rules about plagiarism. Make a better report system, ask OTHER people’s opinion about this matter.
KEEP YOUR EYES OPEN!

By: Lawrence Meckan

Lawrence Meckan — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 01:35:53 +0000

@Jason Aiken,

I, like Steve, would like an official position on the children designers of 99D, especially since 99D, being based in Victoria, Australia, will fall foul with not having a CEP for any child working with them.

Reference:
http://www.youthcentral.vic.go.....under-15s/

Furthermore, as artistic endeavour / production of creative falls under the entertainment industry not only does 99D have to honour the CEP, but also the Mandatory Code of Practice for the Employment of Children in Entertainment.

By: Jason Aiken

Jason Aiken — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 00:37:50 +0000

Steve, I apologize about the delay in processing the violation report – we definitely dropped the ball there.

Truth is – 99designs is growing by leaps and bounds. We have record numbers of projects being launched and have needed to hire new staff to help us keep up with the growth.

I am training two new support members as we speak – so in the future we can expect a much more appropriate response time.

Cheers,
Jason