Someone used my poster for their own purpose, i don’t know wether to be mad
I am doing a lot of graphic design work for music artists, bands, festivals and so on. My latest project was for the summer festival of my music college, i was asked to make a poster, a timetable for the different stages etc. I am getting paid by my college for this project.
last week the digital version of the poster was published/sent to everyone in school via email.
Today one of the musicians performing sent an email to everyone announcing his performance at the festival, attached to the email is a photoshopped version of my poster with his face on it, the colours changed, his logo and name on it and some of the layout slightly altered to include the stage name he is playing at.
I was never asked by him nor did i publicly allowed any of this.
I don’t know how to feel about it. It is clearly still my poster with my layout and font i picked etc.
what do you all think? I don’t feel like posting the posters for privacy reasons but i think i explained it here pretty well.
Colours changed, layout of the text slightly changed, picture and logo added, whole vibe of the poster therefore different but very clearly still based on my work i was payed for.
EDIT: i am from Germany