http://www.brantcollins.com Creative Professional Wed, 17 Feb 2010 06:31:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 http://www.brantcollins.com/2010/02/16/dodge-makes-bone-headed-mistake-over-ram-logo/comment-page-1/#comment-3757 Ray Kampf Wed, 17 Feb 2010 06:31:29 +0000 http://www.brantcollins.com/?p=145#comment-3757 I disagree. As a designer and an educator, this is a good lesson for art students and others about the value of effective graphic design and copyright laws. The school had no right to use the image. Plagiarism is banned in writing a term paper, so why should copying a visual symbol be allowed? Sure Chrysler may have been a bully about this but they have to be - just like Disney has to be when they say "stop using crappy copy of our Mickey Mouse on the side of your daycare." Allowing the students to think that its alright to steal someone else's design sets a bed precedent. The teachable opportunity here is to allow the art students to design a new ram for the school - however with art programs getting slashed in most public school, stealing may be all they have. I disagree.
As a designer and an educator, this is a good lesson for art students and others about the value of effective graphic design and copyright laws.
The school had no right to use the image. Plagiarism is banned in writing a term paper, so why should copying a visual symbol be allowed?
Sure Chrysler may have been a bully about this but they have to be – just like Disney has to be when they say “stop using crappy copy of our Mickey Mouse on the side of your daycare.”
Allowing the students to think that its alright to steal someone else’s design sets a bed precedent.
The teachable opportunity here is to allow the art students to design a new ram for the school – however with art programs getting slashed in most public school, stealing may be all they have.

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