Stolen Tarsier costs 40,000 pesos

Posted by Awa Tiro in News on Mar 24th, 2009 | one response

A few months ago I read an advertisement on a local newpaper for a logo competition. So I did called Bam, a friend of mine, who designs logos and stuffs. To make the story short, he did an entry for that logo competition. His submission for the contest can be viewed at his online portfolio at dsignfx.net.

Last week, he asked me if I have any news updates of the said updates and I said no. Not knowing that the contest has ended and had someone proclaim as winner. However, there were allegations that the concept was stolen from an online work. You can read the post below.

A friend of mine use to design image and she save it in her iStock account. There is one guy from CDO who request to copy the image for he likes it so much. Out of pity, this kind artist give the approval as long it is for personal use.

After either weeks or month, my friend artist was inform by somebody about this image. She was inform that her image won a grand price in graphics competition in which she never participated.

When she look at it, she found that the image was the one copied by someone from CDO under the shadow of friendship and being a fans of her works.

For more details of the incident visit this link.

In short, this guy from Cagayan de Oro, took the image from her, then without any approval submitted it as entry in graphics competition held somewhere in Mindanao. Once he got the prize, he never share nor inform her this awards.

Logo contest details- http://www.mindanaoan.com/2008/10/29/shie-corporation-cdo-launches-logo-and-icon-contest/

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