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Agency Based Discussion => iStockPhoto.com => Topic started by: Chico on October 27, 2012, 16:56

Title: File too similar Rio Olimpics logo 2016
Post by: Chico on October 27, 2012, 16:56

Just for curiosity:

http://www.istockphoto.com/stock-illustration-19898238-people-holding-hands.php?st=5dfbbc5 is (http://www.istockphoto.com/stock-illustration-19898238-people-holding-hands.php?st=5dfbbc5 is)

What do you think?

Here original

http://www.creativereview.co.uk/images/uploads/2011/01/rio569_0.jpg (http://www.creativereview.co.uk/images/uploads/2011/01/rio569_0.jpg)
Title: Re: File too similar Rio Olimpics logo 2016
Post by: ShadySue on October 27, 2012, 17:01
IMO, way too similar.
Title: Re: File too similar Rio Olimpics logo 2016
Post by: qwerty on October 27, 2012, 17:14
>60 DL in 20 days.
Title: Re: File too similar Rio Olimpics logo 2016
Post by: Chico on October 27, 2012, 17:51
Strange has been approved. Olympic games logo are always well known.
Title: Re: File too similar Rio Olimpics logo 2016
Post by: Microbius on October 28, 2012, 03:27
Yup way too similar
Title: Re: File too similar Rio Olimpics logo 2016
Post by: leaf on October 29, 2012, 05:46
looks like istock agreed - the image was removed.
Title: Re: File too similar Rio Olimpics logo 2016
Post by: click_click on October 29, 2012, 10:27
Here is the cached version:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:AtXIvOttwOQJ:www.istockphoto.com/stock-illustration-19898238-people-holding-hands.php+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=firefox-a (http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:AtXIvOttwOQJ:www.istockphoto.com/stock-illustration-19898238-people-holding-hands.php+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=firefox-a)
Title: Re: File too similar Rio Olimpics logo 2016
Post by: madelaide on October 29, 2012, 19:59
There was a event in, I believe, Mexico, who used a logo very similar to ours and the Brazilian Olympic Commitee protested - they changed it, obviously, because the "inpiration" was very clear.

BTW, the Olympic logo is beautiful, unlike the ugly Wordl Cup logo.
(https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRFAOxeptuelfztaoyv_Q1HMALY2ssaHoLM5B7c5ZBrYqirzL20Xg)