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Spec work sites like 99designs are ripe with stolen illustrations from stock sites. Should you ever get caught with a logo using stolen works, you're setting y
by Gibbon 18y ago
Spec work sites like 99designs are ripe with stolen illustrations from stock sites.
Should you ever get caught with a logo using stolen works, you're setting yourself up for some really hefty fees regardless of where you obtained the work. This isn't conjecture, it's happened before:
http://www.thelogofactory.com/logo_blog/index.php/anti-spec-work-parable/ http://www.thelogofactory.com/logo_blog/index.php/anti-spec-...
- ericwaller 18y agoIs this really an issue with spec work? What recourse do you have if a non-spec designer uses stolen illustrations in your logo?
- jcl 18y agoThat's a great article. (The word is "rife", btw.) As the article hints, it's a problem of economics. With spec work, the artist only gets paid on a few works out of many. To make many works and still earn a living wage, the artist must make each work with a fraction of the resources usually allocated to a professional work -- which on average can't compete with stolen works produced with more resources. If spec work paid more, real artists might be able to compete -- but the only reason people want spec work is because it is cheaper... in the short term at least.