Samsung steals artwork from Apple, MS
updated 07:45 am EDT, Mon May 8, 2006
Samsung steals from Apple
Samsung has admitted to stealing Apple's intellectual property. The company on Sunday said that it has updated and revised the icons used in its latest handset model "Skin," which used work from both Apple and Microsoft, according to The Korea Times: "The electronics giant admitted plagiarizing designs of the handset’s graphic user interface. Many graphic designers and other Internet users on various Web communities [...] over the last two weeks have accused the firm of stealing the designs. The new handset, which began selling here in late April, has an identical graphic icon with Apple’s iMac PC which is composed of a ruled notepad and a pen lying on it. Samsung also copied other icons from Microsoft, such as a pile of three yellow sticky notes, and blue and green, round-shaped men that represent MSN Messenger."
pathetic
05/08, 10:45am reply
for a company with the size and reputation of Samsung to steal other's property so blatantly is pathetic. Samsung should know better, and I can only hope heads will roll over this.
eddd
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they didn't
05/08, 10:48am reply
even TRY to change them a little. just a cut and paste job. :shakes head: At least they admited guilt. other companies would spend money "investigating" it
FastAMX79
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getting fired..
05/08, 02:44pm reply
To avoid this kind of issue is why large companies employ lawyers. Clearly, exactly as in most other large companies, Samsung's were majorly sleeping on their job.
ZinkDifferent
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JulesLt
05/08, 03:56pm reply
I don't really think the lawyers were sleeping on the job, unless lawyers now have to review all icons and digital assets - at a hunch, it's a failure in their software development procedures to check their digital assets were clean.
JulesLt
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Stickies
05/09, 11:55pm reply
The stickie icon is Apple's, not Microsoft! This is OS X version of the stickies.
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