Beu notified me that he spotted someone who stole Cartoon Me (Barry). His alias is Mohamedimran and if you visit his StumbleUpon profile you will see this:
How crazy. Makes me mad, upset, kind of makes me feel violated!
He is 21 years old and from AN, India. Now, the crazy thing is, this is not the first guy from India to steal my trademark or name. There was an India SEO Company Impersonating RustyBrick back in October of 2006.
So what is up India? Is this common practice?
Update: On June 20th he replies to me saying:
Hi Rustybrick, thanks for the message,i have to tell you onething, i'm not using yours friend, i saw this pic in a website, it appears good and so cute, it seems like me. so i decided to use it as my avatar in my Social Network Pages.... thats all...
Yes, he is still using my avatar.
Update 2: He has now changed his avatar to something else. He said:
sry friend, i didn't understood, now its ok, i'll change as soon as possible.... Once again i have to say "I'm Really sry"be my friend....!
Thank you Mohamedimran.



Comments
If I were you I'd try to be nice first and msg him. If its a normal dude he may just like the icon and think its a free use piece. After that i guess you either have to get nasty, legal, evil, or over it. I am pretty sure you can have him dumped by stumble for theft of any copyrighted or trademarked items though.
Peace man
Posted by: Mich D aka @MichDdot | June 17, 2008 1:03 PM
I sent him a message via SU, lets see if he replies.
Posted by: Barry Schwartz | June 17, 2008 1:10 PM
i say go to india and kick his a...
that is so wrong
let him get his own
or maybe he is trying to send u a message that he looks like u
let see what develops
Posted by: cartton | June 17, 2008 2:44 PM
Who knew there were guys named Mohamed with kippot? maybe he's thinking of converting and wanted to try out the look.
Posted by: Rebecca | June 18, 2008 1:58 AM
Who do these guys think they are?!
Posted by: wife | June 18, 2008 12:50 PM
Sorry to spoil your day, I know all to well how you feel!
Posted by: Brian Ussery | June 20, 2008 1:07 AM
it's only a pic man.
he's sed tht hes gonna chnge it so stop
freakin owt!
the guys a muslim
obviously he aint gonna be werin a kippot.
jst giv the guy a break
aleesha
Posted by: aleesha | August 12, 2009 1:02 PM