The French regulatory agency given the task of enforcing anti-piracy legislation unveiled its logo at an official ceremony, but was forced to withdraw it due to copyright infringement claims.
The Hadopi agency unveiled the logo with French culture minister Frederic Mitterrand. The agency is designed to enforce laws that will ban citizens from internet access in a “three strikes” set-up.
But the logo was withdrawn after it was pointed out it used a font owned by France Telecom, with the original logo’s designer threatening possible legal action.
The design company responsible, Plan Creatif, has said it will amend the logo to one which does not infringe any laws.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Patrick Stafford is a freelance journalist and a former deputy editor of SmartCompany.
COMMENTS
SmartCompany is committed to hosting lively discussions. Help us keep the conversation useful, interesting and welcoming. We aim to publish comments quickly in the interest of promoting robust conversation, but we’re a small team and we deploy filters to protect against legal risk. Occasionally your comment may be held up while it is being reviewed, but we’re working as fast as we can to keep the conversation rolling.
The SmartCompany comment section is members-only content. Please subscribe to leave a comment.
The SmartCompany comment section is members-only content. Please login to leave a comment.