Last year, Dan Cederholm redesigned SimpleBits.
Now, LogoMaid has “been inspired by” Dan’s logo and is reselling it.
Update: as Dan says, “it gets better, folks”:
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.
Our logo was registered at c-site, the registration has been approved. According to c-site, we own the copyrights to that actual logo.
We do not need to steal anyones ideas.
According to your website, you did the rebrand in December, correct?
Please check the screeshot for RH Restyling (company from Holland) we did in October I believe. Hmm, I am just currious how it would be possible to "copy" your logo when your "rebranding" was done in mid december.
URL: www.logomaid.com/tmp/simplebitsfraud/simplebitsfraud.jpg
You'll find out the logo we sell at logomaid.com is one of the concepts the customer didn't choose to use.
We are strongly considering a lawsuit against simplebits not only because of the logo, but also the fact that you are harming our goodwill.
regards, Paul Viluda Vilords media
Paul,
Thanks for stopping by, though I would have at least appreciated an original response rather than copy-and-pasting one of your posts from Flickr.
That being said, there may or may not be a legal issue here, but there IS an issue of ethics and courtesy. The "restyling" logo you are selling is an obvious ripoff of the SimpleBits logo.
It true that certain graphical shapes like the cube, the shield, and others have been so popular that it's hard to swing a stick and not hit one (recently the spiral has been oddly popular). However, the graphic element in Dan's logo is (in recent memory at least) uniquely his.
It would have been easier and classier to recognize the ripoff, admit poor taste, and take it down. Little loss on your part, and community goodwill in return.
It's sad that this has turned into the shouting match that it's become.