“Reality TV is a harsh business. One minute everyone is glued to Jersey Shore, the next you’re looking at a canceled series and a backlog of ‘GTL’ shirts cluttering up the company store,” Matthew Panzarino reports for The Next Web. “One of the perennial favorites of the genre is Extreme Home Makeover, an ABC property that has a team building a house for a needy couple in a week, people love the construction drama.”
“So it’s not all that surprising that competing network NBC Universal is firing up a new reality series called Home Transformers… NBC Universal has even set up a nice little website that it is using to stump for designers and builders to apply for the show this weekend,” Panzarino reports. “But wait, what is this clever hammer-and-blueprint logo that they have displayed on the page? That looks familiar.”
Panzarino reports, “That’s the logo for Xcode, Apple’s main suite of software for app developers, and it has been since it was introduced in 2008. But hey, it makes for a great graphic that represents construction, design and planning, so why not just steal it? … And see, NBC is one of the biggest supporters of SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act). In fact, it was caught strong-arming its suppliers into supporting the act, which has since been stalled by massive online protests.”
Read more in the full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews readers too numerous to mention individually for the heads up.]
Epic fail 🙂
=:~)
Hahaha SOPA… They only want SOPA where it makes them money. They don’t actually give a crap about what copyright is…
What? We NBC is not your average Joe. We say one thing, but we can do another thing. We are a cut above you, normal people.
What???? You mean we’d have to pay to use that design? Nobody told us….
… folks that chose the icon were not aware it was “borrowed”. It was offered, along with dozens of others, for generally clueless executives to choose from. “Xcode? What’s that? Like Cobol, maybe?” And, of course, they didn’t check and nobody told them. DUH!
I guess it only matters when their work is appropriated.
As I had written on MacNN…
I am an unemployed artist, and seeing such blatant copyright infringement by a brainless and uncaring “professional”, knowingly putting his/her employer into legal and financial harm, should be fired immediately.
But, I’d fire him just for being an incredibly lazy idiot to use Apple as the source for copying. It would be incredibly easy to use it as a source of inspiration, and create your own original art.
I cannot express how much it burns my bottom to see such overpaid, untalented, idiots as I sit here eating the last serving of generic oatmeal for breakfast.
hang in there Aryu, you’re not alone.
Funny, I’m having trouble coming up with a single NBC show that I watch. You might think that they would WANT someone to steal their stuff, just get somebody to watch it. When they innovated (there’s that word again) they had hit after hit. When they moved to just coping someone else’s successes, they failed monumentally.
Screw SOPA! Bunch of censoring stealing little pieces of crap.
Yep, and Republican Congressman Lamar Smith is the one carrying the ball for SOPA.
Don’t start. SOPA has/had backers from both sides of the isle.
Sheesh – what are trying to do, turn yet another thread into a political slugfest?
C’mon, be better than that.
Aryu – make sure you paint/make something every day. If it’s good art you’ll sell it one day. Good luck, Ron.
I thought maybe they came up with something that looked close to the xCode icon and people were just being over sensitive but nope, its literally Apple’s graphic. I can even see the word xCode on the lower right on the NBC website! WTF!
If SOPA had passed would NBC be volunteering to have themselves blacklisted from DNS? hehe
not only does it say Xcode, but in the other corner is the apple logo…
Nah, it’s just “similar”
… you two! So, not only did the executive who accepted the art fail to recognize “Xcode” – which might be common – and fail to wonder why someone would write that seemingly extraneous text on THEIR logo, but they (like me) failed to note the Apple logo. Genius! Or is that taken, as well? 😉
About like Rush Limpballs volunteered to go to prison after he got caught, using drugs after years of ranting on the radio how druggies needed to do jail time.
Hypocrisy is rampant.
Do as I say, not as I do.
Maybe they hired a designer from Samsung, you know. . . that lazy one 🙂
I’ve heard it said that NBC controls MSNBC, however, the slime hosts and their slimy tactics of MSNBC make it seem the other way around.
. . . say it with a deep voice.
Home Transformers – – – Builders in Disguise!
. . . now why does that sound familiar?
Plus, if you go to
http://hometransformers.tv/
Their background is also a ripoff from the following image:
http://interfacelift.com/wallpaper/details/1236/blueprint.html
Pure ripoff
LOL
good catch.
NBC already pulled the Xcode logo, wonder how long until they remove the background.
Even though they changed the page, the logo is still on their
” rel=”nofollow”>servers (as of 2:30 pm EDT).
Clearly they are using lazy Republicans to do their programming. The Republicans fall into 2 camps:
(1)Those that are doing the fu$&ing
and
(2)those that are too stupid to realize that they are being fu#ked.
The second group tends to be Fox-News watching Bible-Beating Santorum and Limbaugh listening Hannity idiots who live in backwards “Red” states.
By your comment, I guess you’re in the group that tends to be the MSNBC-watching Marxist-praising Maddow-listening idiots who tend to live in more socialist “Blue” states, then.
Stereotypical mindless name-calling blather from yet another left-wing lap-dog.
… is demonstrably more intelligent and better informed – politically – than the vast majority of those who read, much less comment on, this ‘Blog. And, if you think she’s otherwise, that certainly includes YOU, ecrabb.
Second, Raskolnikovras, that comment was totally uncalled for. True, or not. You owe us all an apology.
So, how have you been, Rachel…?
Yes, it’s Republicans that run the ever left-leaning NBC.
Their next move is to steal Soledad O’Brian from CNN to explain what SOPA *really* means…!!!
Well, there it is. I was waiting for some no-nothing, a-wipe to turn the discussion political. You can go back to playing with yourself, now, and leave the comments to posters who don’t have their head up their butt.
Which poster were you talking to?
… and both are at least somewhat guilty. ecrabb, at least, can offer the very mature defense: “He started it!”.