London cartoonist Jamie Smart illustrates his recent email exchange with a company ripping off one of his designs. There’s certain defining characteristics in these interactions, such as the plagiarist claiming to do you a favour by giving you exposure, or as I recently had myself, The Phantom Technician.
(Click the image above for the full cartoon.)
A couple of weeks ago I was playing around with Google image search, with which you can drag and drop an image and Google will return a similar images results page. I dropped my old Twitter avatar (see below) into search, and there I was, with a different coloured background, on someone else’s website. Curious, I clicked the link, and found this:
“The gallery below shows examples of my work old and new.” My avatar was being cogged by Johnny Cotter, of Folkestone, Kent. I was being plagiarised. [Read more →]
