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Weddingbee Icons Copyrighted?

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    thepinkestpainter    July 19 2008  

    So I was on Facebook and I was looking through there apps and one of them is called Willys Sweet Shop. I was looking at all the sweets and they have totally copied  Mrs. Green Tea's icon. It also looks like they mostly copied Mrs. Coconuts icon also.

    Maybe Weddingbee has given them permission, I don't know. I just know that as an artist myself I would want to know if someone was using my work on the chance that they were doing so without my permission. The weddingbee icons are such great trademarks for Weddingbee that I figured I would at least throw this thought out there.

     
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    mrbee    March 5, 2005   New York City, New York

    We haven't given anyone permission to use the Weddingbee icons!

    I found the app through Google:

    http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=47114755928

    But didn't see the Green Tea or Coconut icons... could you take a screenshot and send them to us at help at weddingbee dot come?

    Thanks!!

     
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    thepinkestpainter    July 19 2008  

    Mr.Bee

     

    I emailed you back like you requested with the link and screen shots. Good luck!!!

     

    http://apps.facebook.com/ochristmastree/send

     
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    creme_de_violet    9/12/2010   San Francisco

    Wow, they totally copied Mrs. Green Tea's icon!  There is also one that looks very similar to Mrs. Dew Drop's icon.

     
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    star    October 11, 2009   New York, NY!

    Yes, the similarities to those icons are striking!

     
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    melodicsighs1    May 22, 2010   San Diego

    wow, that's definitely green tea's icon - they call it "chai tea" in the app - and yeah, a few (coconut, dew drop, etc) seem to have pieces stolen or parts that are very similar. Sorry, I don't know how to take screen shots or else I'd be posting one right now.

     
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    RecessionistaBride    January 28, 2012  

    L: Facebook app
    R: Wedding Bee Icon

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    RecessionistaBride    January 28, 2012  

    haha look they're totally different... Facebook's Chai tea has chopsticks :)

     
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    mrbee    March 5, 2005   New York City, New York

    I just checked with Mrs. Bee, and about 10 or so of our icons are from iStockPhoto... Green Tea and Coconut's icons are on that list!  So those aren't copyright infringements - we're just both licensing them from the same source. :-)

    Dew Drop is an original Weddingbee icon though... does anyone have a screenshot of the Facebook app's dew drop?

     
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    RecessionistaBride    January 28, 2012  

    The idea of envy heart & Dew Drop are similar, but IMO they really look nothing alike.

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    mrbee    March 5, 2005   New York City, New York

    Ah ok... yah those are pretty different.  I see what you mean about conceptual similarities tho - I guess there aren't that many ways to draw a dew drop!

     
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    Lillindy    September 2008   Bay Area, CA

    Gummi Bear's is pretty similar to theirs also:

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    mrbee    March 5, 2005   New York City, New York

    Our gummi bear icon is original... but I guess they both look like the real gummi bears!

    http://rochesterchiro.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/gummi.jpg

     
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    RecessionistaBride    January 28, 2012  

    They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery... :)

     

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