{"id":51503,"date":"2021-10-13T14:47:44","date_gmt":"2021-10-13T10:47:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/dubai\/en\/?p=51503"},"modified":"2021-10-13T14:53:20","modified_gmt":"2021-10-13T10:53:20","slug":"el-seed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/dubai\/en\/feature\/el-seed\/","title":{"rendered":"Tunisian Artist eL Seed Calls Out The Tunisian Expo Pavilion On Copyright Claims"},"content":{"rendered":"

“I saw it on social media, my friend sent it to me, he said it looks like yours and I said it does”<\/em><\/p>\n

Tunisian French artist eL Seed<\/a> is calling out a design company and the Tunisian Pavilion for copyright infringement after he says his work was used at the Tunisian Expo pavilion without his permission. The story dates back to 2019 when eL Seed first won the opportunity to design the Tunisian Pavilion.<\/p>\n

The Dubai-based artist, who has work featured in front of Dubai Opera and in City Walk, designed the facade of the Tunisian Expo pavilion in 2019, and he told Lovin Dubai that the final product, which he had no official involvement in, is copyright infringement.<\/p>\n

Copyright infringement: eL Seed is taking a claim against the companies involved in bringing the Tunisian design to life<\/h2>\n
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In 2019, the British Architectural company Pico approached me to respond to the call for the design of @tunisiaexpodubai<\/a>\u00a0at\u00a0@expo2020dubai<\/a> . We worked together and presented our proposal in Tunis in December 2019 at the CEPEX, the organization in charge of the Tunisian Pavilion. Our proposal won. I worked on an artwork that was planned to appear on the fa\u00e7ade of the Pavilion.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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eL Seed’s involvement with the Tunisian pavilion ended in 2020 when the original design company he worked with was removed from the project<\/h2>\n

At the time eL Seed had the opportunity to continue working with Cepex, but he chose not to go ahead.<\/p>\n

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My professional integrity couldn\u2019t allow me to do so. I started with Pico, I finish with them. They then told me, “make a proposal with them (Cepex), we will kick out Pico and you then you can work with us only”. I said no. This was the end of the conversation.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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“I’m shocked, surprised and sad”<\/h2>\n

When Expo opened to the world, a friend contacted eL Seed to tell him the Tunisian Pavilion looked like his work.<\/p>\n

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They took the concept I proposed for the fa\u00e7ade, flipped it and then mixed it with the work of another artist. They have used an artwork I created in 2015. They also applied my work<\/em> almost everywhere inside the Pavilion.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

CEPEX responded to the allegations with a statement stating they were unaware of the conversation<\/h2>\n

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