BE CAREFUL ABOUT POSTING YOUR RENDERING/CONCEPT WORK!

[Tommy Atoms]

The bottom line is, if you intend on making money on something you invent, design or create, then dont show it to the world online. Most big companies dont show their product until its ready to be produced and marketed. Remember we live in a dog eat dog world and theres people who are intent on stealing your hard work.

 

[Beau]

Like I said, not much I can do. What I can do is make it, and sell it for less than some little ....... overseas can make it for, and with recycled or found objects. I can care less though.

I made a 2-d cycling sculpture years ago and have seen a dozen logos similar to it since then.

 

[Dorian]

Micargi sells a bike that is very close to the design of the Basman, the "Royal" I think. People who care and know buy the real thing. How many banana seat bikes looked exactly the same after that Huffy Pequin bike was first sold. Sam at Firebikes had a similar problem with someone wanting to sell Chinese copies of his design. I dont think it ever happened. Complex designs are hard to make and even more difficult to sell for what they are worth. Wild designs almost garantee that nobody will steal it to sell commercially.

Kamillos makes some of the most radical and succesful show bikes for sure.

 

[Uncle Stretch]

Even cars use the ideas other car makers use. Chevy had a straight bar frontend for years ...till Fords patent ran out and then they jumped on it instead of paying Ford for their idea. The chinese are steady looking at anything past the 15 years old and reverse engineering them to sell worldwide. I wonder how much Honda spent for the 110cc motors they put on everything. Now there are 10 companies building the Honda clone motor. Lots of the parts will interchange. The 10% rule is in effect still. You could theoretically use 1 1/2'' tubing instead of the 1'' most bikes are made from and will have changed it 10%. The best deal is to make all the money you can out of your design and hope nobody likes it enough to copy it and go into production. If they do you will spend a long time in a legal fight , that you may not win and the lawyers will wind up with all the money and they don't design anything. :wink:

 

[blackdiamond]

I had the same problem with nissan 370 z.
before 350 even came out a bunch of us on another website did renderings of future z-cars.(In 2001-2002ish)
the brand new 370z looks almost line-for-line like my rendering. :x
That headlight/taillight boomerang design was 100% mine. :x :x :x

 

[outskirtscustoms]

Anyone that steals another person's design without permission is just low. I've not had it happen to me yet but to me it is flattering to have an idea copied but at least give props where props are due.

 

[American Vintage Bicycle Supply]

Yeah, in my graphic design class the teacher would let us steal graphics off the internet and flip them and call it ours.

there was no internet when I was in school, but my instructors would have given me an F if I would have tried that.


herr

I used to be on another forum where people customized sneakers, an asian company copies at least 3 of his designs and made shoes from them. No different. They used his logo and everything. It was crazy to see a bootleg shoe version of the custom one he had painted himself.

I wanna be a member of that website... :mrgreen: