Artist Accuses Domino’s Pizza Of Plagiarism, And The Evidence Is Hard To Deny
Companies have been caught multiple times plagiarising artworks for their own gain, but this story is different. When Weinye Chen, a 30-year-old cartoonist from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, noticed that Domino’s Pizza Chile branch was using her funny comics on their Facebook page, she took action right away. After the initial silence, however, the company sent some messages that were a bit passive-aggressive, to say the least.
“I was shocked at first,” Chen told Mashable. “I’ve dealt with plagiarism before but usually by small, random social media accounts or unknown websites. Nothing like this. This has been my biggest copyright infringement encounter yet.” Chen, who has over 123,000 Instagram followers, shared a screenshot of the whole ordeal with her fans and it quickly went viral.
“I knew I needed as much support as I could get as I’ve never been in this position before,” Chen explained. “There have been many other cases where big corporations have stolen artwork from indie artists, and most of the time, the cases never get resolved, leaving the artists defenseless and helpless. So, I was really concerned about that.”
Scroll down to check out how the story of a villainous pizza restaurant and unpaid royalties unfolded!
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Artist Weinye Chen confronted Domino’s Pizza for plagiarism
After Domino’s posted ‘their’ illustration on social media
Looks familiar? Here’s the original work by Chen
Weinye took it to Facebook to explain that she wasn’t asked for permission
And when the company was confronted by her, their response was the worst
The internet wasn’t happy about it, too
Until Weinye finally took matters into her own hands
Let her explain how it unfolded
People had more to say about the ordeal
What’s your take on this situation?
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Share on Facebooktotally thought the girl in the cartoon had a massive moustache... can't not see it now.
Interesting that at least two of the people supporting her intellectual property rights stole someone else's images to make their points. Dominos should know better of course, but...pot... kettle...black.
I think the difference is that Dominoes was actually making money from her content. A true meme however is a derivative work (where there is no money involved and the artwork itself is not co-opted) that is created to make a point and therefore can be considered free speech.
Load More Replies...This happened to my brother. He is a professional photographer and I happened to see Asus cell phone using one of his photos in their ads on a Japanese website. After obtaining a lawyer they paid him a fairly measly sum and that's that. Now I see his photo everywhere on the internet being used for phone wallpaper and he was never really compensated. He said live and learn. wider.png
Oh, I should add that his work wasn't on FB. It was on Weebly and I believe it even had a watermark.
Load More Replies...This is so pointless. Dominoes could easily have posted the original artwork, with a credit for the artist and been completely fine.
Not without permission, and NOT without paying for it. If you think all you have to do is post a credit for the work you steal, prepare to get sued. NO ONE has the right to steal the intellectual property of others.
Load More Replies...Technically... the cartoon strip is a plagiarization of the original photo meme. As such this artist legally doesn't own her cartoon strip... and actually owes the original photographer a license fee.
As long as it's royalty free, stock photos are for free use by the public...
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There were to many stuff concerning Dominos Pizza, might just as well quit buying those? Stealing artwork is horrendous. As a corporation they could make it their poster or commercial... Making it a stolen mem made them look stupid.
Pizza is life, pizza is my favorite.... But the thing they did to the artist .... Speechless.
well maybe stylistically it's similar but the idea came from a meme that;s been around awhile so it's not liek it was really original to start with
This is why you never post your work on FB. Nobody reads the fine print! Yes, Dominos should have given credit where due, but remember, Copyright regulations in your country may not be applicable in another country. Facebook Statement of Rights and Responsibilities A.Sharing Your Content and Information a.When you publish content or information using the Public setting, it means that you are allowing everyone, including people off of Facebook, to access and use that information, and to associate it with you (i.e., your name and profile picture).
Lesson: stop posting your artwork on the internet without embedded watermarks & copyright
Legally- it's still your work and therefore it's protected. Even without watermarks and as you see here the work wasn't 100% the same and it's still stealing if not asked for permission etc.
Load More Replies...Nowhere is there any proof that artist has ever copied that and the Domino's one is obviously the same just take off the words, most people can do that
Load More Replies...totally thought the girl in the cartoon had a massive moustache... can't not see it now.
Interesting that at least two of the people supporting her intellectual property rights stole someone else's images to make their points. Dominos should know better of course, but...pot... kettle...black.
I think the difference is that Dominoes was actually making money from her content. A true meme however is a derivative work (where there is no money involved and the artwork itself is not co-opted) that is created to make a point and therefore can be considered free speech.
Load More Replies...This happened to my brother. He is a professional photographer and I happened to see Asus cell phone using one of his photos in their ads on a Japanese website. After obtaining a lawyer they paid him a fairly measly sum and that's that. Now I see his photo everywhere on the internet being used for phone wallpaper and he was never really compensated. He said live and learn. wider.png
Oh, I should add that his work wasn't on FB. It was on Weebly and I believe it even had a watermark.
Load More Replies...This is so pointless. Dominoes could easily have posted the original artwork, with a credit for the artist and been completely fine.
Not without permission, and NOT without paying for it. If you think all you have to do is post a credit for the work you steal, prepare to get sued. NO ONE has the right to steal the intellectual property of others.
Load More Replies...Technically... the cartoon strip is a plagiarization of the original photo meme. As such this artist legally doesn't own her cartoon strip... and actually owes the original photographer a license fee.
As long as it's royalty free, stock photos are for free use by the public...
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There were to many stuff concerning Dominos Pizza, might just as well quit buying those? Stealing artwork is horrendous. As a corporation they could make it their poster or commercial... Making it a stolen mem made them look stupid.
Pizza is life, pizza is my favorite.... But the thing they did to the artist .... Speechless.
well maybe stylistically it's similar but the idea came from a meme that;s been around awhile so it's not liek it was really original to start with
This is why you never post your work on FB. Nobody reads the fine print! Yes, Dominos should have given credit where due, but remember, Copyright regulations in your country may not be applicable in another country. Facebook Statement of Rights and Responsibilities A.Sharing Your Content and Information a.When you publish content or information using the Public setting, it means that you are allowing everyone, including people off of Facebook, to access and use that information, and to associate it with you (i.e., your name and profile picture).
Lesson: stop posting your artwork on the internet without embedded watermarks & copyright
Legally- it's still your work and therefore it's protected. Even without watermarks and as you see here the work wasn't 100% the same and it's still stealing if not asked for permission etc.
Load More Replies...Nowhere is there any proof that artist has ever copied that and the Domino's one is obviously the same just take off the words, most people can do that
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