Ethics and plagiarism in design are very important in today’s society. Due to the Internet being the number one research source for ideas, many designers choose to show off their works online. This allows their work to be seen and for them to possibly earn more money from users who would like to use them. The issue arises when the proper credit is not given to the designer. Designers often spend a lot of time on each design, planning and creating it. For someone to go online and use their work as their own without giving credit is unethical. Google is a platform that allows problems like this to occur daily. It allows users to search for exactly what they want and copy it directly into their own work free of charge. This problem is only getting bigger as the content is becoming easier to access at our fingertips. Making sure to find images labeled for reuse and modification or getting the owner’s consent is highly important. This will help save time in the future from having a dispute over a piece of copyright work. This is what happened to the Modern Dog Company when Target used their artwork to be sold on t-shirts. By being ethical in what designers use in their work will allow no copyright concerns for the future.
http://www.ethicsingraphicdesign.org/dog-eat-dog-world/
http://www.ethicsingraphicdesign.org/legalities/plagiarism-and-appropriation/
http://www.ethicsingraphicdesign.org/category/plagiarism/
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