oh @99designs you are so funny! One of our TinEye fans mentioned that a design being considered for a 99Designs contest used our TinEye mascot, and dropping by the 99Designs contest page here is what we see:
and a little enlargement reveals the following:
Now: does that little robot look familiar to you? Reminds me of… let me guess… the TinEye Robot!
We are really excited that this @99designs designer was so inspired by our TinEye robot: I mean our robot is awesome and we get that but for @99designs not to remove the design from the contest? That’s just insane. Here is the @99designs response we received once the design was reported:
Really? Really?
UPDATE:
The infringing design has now been taken down by @99designs.
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Elaine Nov 02 11 at 3:47 pmMaybe 99designs should do the internet a favour and just remove their whole website. As if this isn’t a perfect example of why spec work sucks: fostering lazy, deceptive “designers” who blatantly steal.
Cliff Nov 02 11 at 4:30 pmAlthough I bet they could get away with it in court (but, heck, I’m no lawyer), I agree it was copycat-inspired. And I visited their website (http://99designs.com/) only to see their own logo’s subtitle is “Design Done Differently.” Now THAT’s hilarious!
Roger Blake Nov 02 11 at 4:34 pmYou’d think that the guy would be smart enough not to copy a website whose design is mainly for tracking down similar images!
Tom Nov 13 11 at 7:58 am“[...]smart enough not to copy a website whose design is mainly for tracking down similar images!” lol
Cartoonists United Nov 17 11 at 3:26 pmFunnily enough I was posting a link to your website on my cartoonit forum as we have been discussung image theft. I came across this timely blog post as a result! Unbelievable they’d think to steal an image from an image stealing detection site! Oh the irony. :) Well spotted and actioned!!
Myself and my forum members Do NOT support copying or image theft.
Keep up the good work.
Leah
anonymous Nov 18 11 at 5:02 amLet them use it, but require an asterisk saying, for example, “mascot of TinEye Reverse Image Search”. Gain traffic. :)
Madcap Dec 02 11 at 10:15 amthis is hilarious… its literally like going up to a police officer like: “I just stole your car. Please don’t arrest me…” haha nut cases
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