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Jonathan Baily on August 26th, 2010

Plagiarism Today’s Jonathan Bailey takes a look at trademark, copyright and how it applies to logos and logo design. Part of a series on understanding intellectual property rights and how to protect yours. To hear intellectual property attorneys describe it, it seems so simple. Copyright covers creative works of expression fixed into a tangible medium [...]

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As evidenced by features on NPR and in Forbes, spec work, crowdsourcing and design contests remain the darlings of the business media. Sadly, many of the inflated claims made are left unchallenged and become the accepted truth, when often times, they’re not really true at all. Conversations about spec work and crowdsourcing have turned up [...]

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Steve Douglas on April 27th, 2010

Want to rank on Google for ‘logo design’ or related keywords? Due to shady tactics of some of the front runners, your odds are long. That doesn’t mean you’re completely out of luck. How using a ‘rising tide lifts all boats’ philosophy, we can all improve our site rankings. SEO abuse of the logo design [...]

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Steve Douglas on April 8th, 2010

In the cut-throat game of online logo design marketing, some companies are using logo raiding, a tactic that creeps closer and closer to the boundaries of ethics, and perhaps treads over copyright itself. Latest trend in the online logo design game? Logo Raiding. Never heard of it? You have now. That’s when blog publishers (often [...]

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When web designer Zach Hornsby decided to write a blog post entitled 99designs is Effectively Ruining Client, Designer Relations he used a picture of 99designs staff to illustrate the piece. That’s probably cool under ‘Fair Use’ and ‘Parody’ provisions, but he promptly received an e-mail from 99designs founder Mark Harbottle claiming copyright protection and ominously [...]

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