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Wednesday 3 February 2010

Scream Pubs Copyright Infrigement

Scream pubs menu from last year


I do know my rights and copyright infringement is a serious thing. Last year I was commissioned to do all of the illustrations, handlettering and backgrounds for all the collateral associated to the Scream pubs chain.

Scream pubs are owned by Mitchells and Butlers, a huge corporation specialising in food and drink venues that not only owns the 68 Scream pubs scattered throughout the UK, but also the O'Neills and O'Bar One chains among others. I did the work for the money and I was quite surprised to be asked to do Food and Drink artwork as it is not my forte. The results were disapointing to me but I was told the client was happy. And then my credit card got paid off and that sweetened the blow of doing crap commercial work.

The Scream pub license I granted is running out at the end of the week. Yet their new website still features work of mine. And I want it down or they pay up. The account manager is telling me that the work there is not mine but that of another illustrator they commissioned to do the exact same stuff with just a few slight changes so they owe me no money.
Well, there is a name to describe exactly that and that is copyright infringement and you owe me lots of money!

On the left their designs and my pictures on the right












Theirs newly plagiarised by new illustrator and mine on the right












Theirs newly plagiarised by new illustrator and my final version on the right












Theirs newly plagiarised by new illustrator and my final version on the right

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