Someone gave me work to design and he went away with my design and keep posting that they are not ready to do the work yet but to my surprise i saw my work on a design which is my design....please advice me on what to do because i wish to sue him

Wow. I hate that thing ehn!
You should sue him, reallyyyy. if there's any way you get a proof you're the one. then get a good lawyer. sue him, even if 1million. Make him vomit am.. people are wicked abeg

That's why I never do jobs without initial deposit. sometimes it's not enough to put your watermarks

Thanks for your response, i have prove which is 100%

Jh0wsef:
Wow. I hate that thing ehn!
You should sue him, reallyyyy. if there's any way you get a proof you're the one. then get a good lawyer. sue him, even if 1million. Make him vomit am.. people are wicked abeg

That's why I never do jobs without initial deposit. sometimes it's not enough to put your watermarks

If it is not a big company, don't waste you time and money on lawyers.

Anywhere you notice your design online, complain of copyright infringement to the owner of that platform (make sure you have prove that you own it), and they would take it down.

You can prove you own it if you have some never published work-in-progress pictures, if the one he has is a little crop and you have the full one, or screenshot of you sending him the image.

If it is on a foreign T-shirt printing website or YouTube video, they could even be given all the revenue he earned while using that design (if you succeed on convinceing them it's yours and he doesn't have the rights to use it). If it is on their personal website, report to the host.

Nigerian court is more useless than police officers when it comes to protection of intellectual properties. It is better to buy a new phone than waste your money on lawyers.

Another thing is to carry his details and write a proper blog post about how he cheated you. So that if he wants to do business with someone and they search for his name, your story would be one of the search results. Damaging to his reputation especially if he wants to work with a foreign company.

faceland:
If it is not a big company, don't waste you time and money on lawyers.

Anywhere you notice your design online, complain of copyright infringement to the owner of that platform (make sure you have prove that you own it), and they would take it down.

You can prove you own it if you have some never published work-in-progress pictures, if the one he has is a little crop and you have the full one, or screenshot of you sending him the image.

If it is on a foreign T-shirt printing website or YouTube video, they could even be given all the revenue he earned while using that design (if you succeed on convinceing them it's yours and he doesn't have the rights to use it). If it is on their personal website, report to the host.

Nigerian court is more useless than police officers when it comes to protection of intellectual properties. It is better to buy a new phone than waste your money on lawyers.

Another thing is to carry his details and write a proper blog post about how he cheated you. So that if he wants to do business with someone and they search for his name, your story would be one of the search results. Damaging to his reputation especially if he wants to work with a foreign company.

Another post I remember from way back (that year)
I think I might turn this write up to a gaddamn blog.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOaJV5STMKY