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Originally posted by Sly_RJ
The bid entry most likely would have allowed for that situation.
On top of that, the design firm would have been stupid to submit "ideas". That's what portfolios are for. Don't leak your shit if you don't want people "copying" your ideas.
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The government, non-profit corporations and many other large companies do this routinely when they call for bids on a project. The firms that really want the work submit several concepts (not necessarily completed designs) along with the bid proposal. This is done in good faith and the designs are copyrighted to the designer as soon as they are put down on paper. If that company then does not hire that designer but produces the work in-house and there are enough similarities, that designer has a legal case.
Judging from some of the comments made in the other thread it seems to me that there are too many non professionals doing adult design work that don't understand how business works. My point was, the fact that the designs were unveiled at Internext, which was 6 weeks prior to the actual roll out of the websites has no bearing on whether or not it was okay to copy the designs and the pricing model. Unless of course you are totally ignorant of the law and say that designs are public domain. That's real intelligent. I suppose he also believes that photographs on the internet are public domain too and he is free to use them on his website.