A well-respected radio station this week celebrated its 35th birthday. And to celebrate, Global Radio’s LBC posted this ‘history of logos’, mostly taken from car stickers. Similar, indeed, to this page from a website called radiosticker.com – a page last updated in January this year.

On LBC’s website, they posted this logo. Which looks rather suspiciously like the same on radiosticker.com – the same imperfections, the same size, the same everything – except LBC have edited out the ‘radiosticker.com’ watermark below the sticker. Another sticker has been enlarged and re-sampled, but still shows similar imperfections, like a smudge in the same place.

The owner of radiosticker.com spotted this, and sent a cheerful email to the LBC website, simply asking for a credit. The reply, from Jonathan Richards (who’s Programme Director of LBC) was one, terse, sentence:

They weren’t downloaded from your site.

Even after radiosticker.com’s owner pointed out the obvious comparisons, and offered to send the webmaster higher-resolution images, Jonathan replied with:

They were scanned – by a member of staff who has worked here for 22 years and has the originals at home.

Heavens – the guy was asking for a credit, that’s all – not money – and was even offering better quality scans for the website to make their website better. Instead, he’s had two, terse, emails back.

All the evidence points to Global being clearly at fault here. Regardless of whether Global are actually reclaiming their own copyright material here, clearly politeness and decency haven’t made it to LBC 97.3 – nor any understanding of the web, or of how to talk to people.

Global, you should be ashamed of yourself. Here’s a hint on how you should be engaging with people. Not behaving like assholes when you’re clearly at fault.

Image above reproduced by permission of radiosticker.com – there, that wasn’t so difficult, was it?

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