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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 [...]
In internet parlance, they’ve been called ‘Twitter storms‘ and ‘Tweakouts‘ (freak outs) but always seem to follow the same pattern. A real or perceived slight, often involving plagiarism and alleged copyright infringement, is announced on a social platform and via a web-based echo chamber, Twitter retweeting and Facebook fan pages, it becomes an internet cacophony [...]
Couple of days ago, we told you about the internet flap about the Missile Defense Agency logo, in which conservative blogs found an Islamic crescent, (or stripes from the Barack Obama campaign logo) on an obscure National Defense website and staged a collective freakout. Some even claimed that the MDA design cribbed the Iranian Space [...]
As part of our brand and site retooling, we’re planning to release a regular series of podcasts through iTunes and our site. Gearing up for a weekly release, though that might be a tad optimistic if earlier efforts are any indication. Previous Podcast fail We started recording podcasts last year, but our ‘weekly’ series fell [...]
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Update: Ruh-oh. According to AdFreak it looks like the ad was approved by WWF Brazil and DID run (just once) in a Brazilian newspaper. “WWF Brasil and DDB Brasil would like to jointly express their regret for the unfortunate incident involving the ‘Tsunami’ ad for World Wildlife Fund Brasil. The ad does not convey either [...]
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