A few days before Christmas, we discussed the trouble with design crowdsourcing, and showed you, once again, how pinched designs have a nasty habit of making their way into logo design contests. Not terribly surprising really, when the budget set by the contest holders are in the range of lunch for two at Mickey Dee’s – in the case of this Lime Exchange contest, a princely fifteen bucks for “some good logo designs for (a) Chinese restaurant”. Well, as if to punctuate our point, yet another of our client’s designs has been entered into the very same spec contest – this time a logo for the Casa Asia Chinese restaurant being proffered up by someone calling themselves Farrukh, hailing from Faisalabad, Pakistan. Didn’t even bother removing The Logo Factory watermark either. And if anyone’s thinking of entering, or holding, one of these contests, I wouldn’t hold my breath expecting Lime Exchange to police their contests for originality. Their terms of service specifically waive any liability of stolen artwork being pawned off, and an e-mail to their abuse department, outlining the earlier copycat, amounted to nada.
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Hi Again,
As in the older post, again we are working towards ensuring we police all entries on LimeStand as per DMCA guidelines. As in the case of the offending entry as highlighted, again the entry has been taken down, the user warned and on any repeat offense, the user would be permanently blocked from LimeExchange and his behavior reported.
Hope to continue to step up efforts on LimeExchange to police and collaborate with design communities to ward off pirates
LimeExchange Team