The winner hasn't been announced, but yet my logo has been on the site for a couple of days now. What gives??
Great work every one !! I was wondering what action the Mods will take regarding the logo theft, will they ban this guy ??
Well i don't know about the action, but all i know is "I haven't received my payment of 60$ from Craig", I won one of his contest here ---- http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=449639 He promised to give me 20 $ for that, then I created logo for his site howitscreated (40$ for the logo) (I also gave him the logo in 3 different colors)--- Again I was surprised to see this thread and now I M just waiting for him to pay me, that's what happens in this forum, First you take part into a stupid 15 $ competition then you do hard work waking up at nights and doing work without eating anything and just when you have won you realize that all your work means nothing DP needs to be upgraded into a market place and not like a typical forum, at least the buy sell trade section should have strict guidelines and its own protocols so that every creative person should get what he wants..... I have sympathy for Ipodfreek and Hecky who took part in this competition and also for other designers as well.
I gave him a bad mark on iTrader, and he sent me a message threatening to do the same on mine. What the?? He steals my logo, then wants to give me bad reviews?! Ugh!
Forget the bad i-trader mark. It's easy to create another account and do it all over again. DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT! Don't let your work be stolen and sit on the sidelines! WHO IS him/her; notify the host about the theft; send a cease and desist to offender. Use this if you must: You have made an unauthorized use of my copyrighted work on "website here". As you neither asked for nor received permission to use the Work, I believe you have willfully infringed my rights under 17 U.S.C. Section 101 et seq. and could be liable for statutory damages as high as $150,000 as set forth in Section 504©(2) therein. I demand that you immediately cease the use and distribution of all infringing works derived from my design work, and all copies, including electronic copies destroyed and that you desist from this or any other infringement of my rights in the future. If I have not received an affirmative response from you by "date goes here" indicating that you have fully complied with these requirements, I shall take further action against you.
YOU BETCHA! But you must go through all the steps and allow them the opportunity to retract BEFORE you can proceed. So don't get mad; you do have recourse.......And again, it's not about the money in a case like this, it's about the principal.......
I have not stole a thing. I have replied to my pms and I was going to annouce the winner on my contests, but everyone assumed that I just stole them. I am unable to pay by mail, so I have replied asking for the designers address that way I can send payment. I wait for reply.
bla bla bla, whatever... when you have time to do all these things, you can at least give feedbacks, and you can at least say that contest closed and I will announce the winner soon...
He takes my logo, then gives me a bad iTrader rating (which I promptly reported). Sigh... I give up. If the money ever shows up in my Paypal I'll probably fall over.