Dirty Rotten Thieves
22nd of March, 2007
Logomaid stole Simplebits‘ logo and then put it in their online store for sale. Then Logomaid had the gall to threaten to sue Simplebits in the comments thread on the Flickr photo.
If you have eyes, you’ll see it’s an obvious rip off. What follows in the comment thread from Logomaid is so low that it’s hard to comprehend the fact such scumbags exist.
From an email Dan received from Logomaid -
Please contact your designer regarding that issue, as if he did several concepts for you, it’s very likely he sold the concepts you didn’t use…
Obviously idiots. But it gets better -
The main shape according to our designer is a font symbol and you do not have the rights to claim ownership to freeware font symbols. Other than the actual shape, I see no relevance.
First of all, it’s not a freeware font. Secondly, that’s bullshit. Then Logomaid weighs in on the thread -
We are strongly considering a lawsuit against simplebits not only because of the logo, but also the fact that you are harming our goodwill.
Goodwill… What? After a few attacks on LM, they bring out the “we’re so experienced and great, just look at some of our big name clients even though it’s irrelevant” card -
Thanks for your opionion Mike. Although logomaid.com is up no longer than 2 years, our company is in the design and new media business since 98. We did campaigns for customers like Vodafone, T-Online, Nextra, Citroen etc.
Immediately after that comment, they insult Dan -
Did you ever think someone may have the same idea like you…rotating 4 brackets? Or do you think this idea is so unique that only you could create something so “sophisticated”?
Mike points out that Logomaid have done it before with the Unison logo from Panic. The first item on the second page of rip offs.
Greg Storey suggests a fund for fighting rip offs. I don’t know if this is what it’ll take but it may help.
There’s a lot more back and forths with this Paul scoundrel. He comes out with “Right, if we were doing illegal business activies I would spend 4 hours online clearing up the issue.” He hasn’t been clearing up anything, Mike gets it right -
No, Paul, you’d spend 4 hours online trying to JUSTIFY doing illegal business.
These people are running an illegal business. I’m sure the deeper we dig into the Logomaid Website the more rip offs we’d find. I’m sure the only way to stop these thieves is to expose them as the criminals they are.
I hate it when people rip-off! >:(
Boycott Logomaid!!
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Do they CREATE logos or do they only BUY them from designers?
This appears to be what is implied in the first email reply.
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They do both. Buy and create. I thought that excerpt from their email was particularly funny because Dan IS the designer.
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So I was clicking through their site and it seems than many of their logos look remarkably similar to other logos! Like the one called “eXtrasite” looks very similar to Xbox! These guys should be very careful. I’ll boycott them! PS: I created a logo for a friend of mine just to put on one of his events… It had the 4 bracket square with a house shaped box in the middle. Let them sue. They’d never win.
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[...] I wasn’t the only person who wrote a blog post about LogoMaid and how they ripped off the SimpleBits logo. Apparently, their rip-off was vehemently denounced by pretty much anyone who came to know about the theft. (Yeah, I know that’s a whole lot of links there, but there were a lot of people upset about this.) Well, it seems that LogoMaid has succumbed to the pressure and has posted a public apology to Dan on the Flickr page that started this all: In name of Vilords media I need to apologize for the inconvenience caused. I feel really sorry that we didn’t remove the logotype rightaway (sic)…and let this situation ascalate (sic). It took us too long to understand the designer we worked with for over 3 years obviously did copy the main shape of your logo. We figured it when we saw the owl logotype (added today) which was removed from the offer almost instanly (sic) after the friendly notification from ara_p (thanks). [...]
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i think the best part about this ripoff is how dedicated the designer was. i mean, fine - take the shape (ripoff) BUT to make the house an exact replica of the cube…. in the words of Gob from Arrested Development, “COME ON!!!”
anyway. it’s funny and pathetic.
losers.
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I love how the one comment I made on the post was sandwiched and lost within a minute of its posting - THAT is phenomenal mob power. I have a feeling that LogoMaid is screwed for a very long time. The ridiculousness of the situation is unbelievable.
Oh, and great redesign! Very clean! :D
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Jim just read through this thread and some of the 455 comments on Flickr. As bad as Logomaid is I’d like to point out that people should include some sort of copyright note in the footer of their site to help protect themselves. .
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I wasn’t the only person who wrote a blog post about LogoMaid and how they ripped off the SimpleBits logo. Apparently, their rip-off was vehemently denounced by pretty much anyone who came to know about the theft.
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