Wednesday August 20, 2008 at 12:04

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Omar Lee’s work appears to have been stolen by Premise Marketing: I’ll keep the story short. A few months ago, at the behest of someone I went to school with, I agreed to do some illustration work for a social networking site being built by these guys. I normally don’t take on freelance work outside of what my rep finds for me but, for some reason, I relaxed my policy for this job. What can I say? My art school chum was a nice guy. I didn’t think he’d steer me wrong. My mistake. I bid on the job (a set of 9 illustrations), they agreed, and I sent in some initial concepts. They weren’t happy with the direction, so I agreed to take another run at it. This time, I only took one illustration to final as a sample. Gregg, my contact at Premise Marketing, promptly disappeared. I was actually relieved because I didn’t really want to do the job for a number of reasons but imagine my surprise when I found the site recently and discovered that some of my work had been altered and re-purposed. No, they did not pay me. Not a kill fee, not a portion of it, not anything. Nice job, Premise. Oh, look: they have a Flickr account. I don’t see how people expect to get away with that in this day and age. I mean, have they not heard of the Internet? (via Omar Lee)

Omar Lee’s work appears to have been stolen by Premise Marketing:

I’ll keep the story short. A few months ago, at the behest of someone I went to school with, I agreed to do some illustration work for a social networking site being built by these guys. I normally don’t take on freelance work outside of what my rep finds for me but, for some reason, I relaxed my policy for this job. What can I say? My art school chum was a nice guy. I didn’t think he’d steer me wrong. My mistake. I bid on the job (a set of 9 illustrations), they agreed, and I sent in some initial concepts. They weren’t happy with the direction, so I agreed to take another run at it. This time, I only took one illustration to final as a sample. Gregg, my contact at Premise Marketing, promptly disappeared. I was actually relieved because I didn’t really want to do the job for a number of reasons but imagine my surprise when I found the site recently and discovered that some of my work had been altered and re-purposed. No, they did not pay me. Not a kill fee, not a portion of it, not anything. Nice job, Premise. Oh, look: they have a Flickr account.

I don’t see how people expect to get away with that in this day and age. I mean, have they not heard of the Internet? (via Omar Lee)