A few months ago, we found out that in Marina Baotić in Donji Seget there is a bench on display identical to the bench that was designed and made several times, for different clients, by our workshop Jakšić. Since its creation in 2014, we have exhibited the bench at several exhibitions and fairs, and its photos have been published on our websites and social networks. Marina Baotic has never been our client or contacted us for any kind of collaboration, but the bench in their possession is a complete copy of our work! After we warned them through a lawyer to comment on the creation of unauthorized plagiarism and remove it, they completely ignored us. On the contrary, we recently discovered that the bench is still on display in front of the Marina Baotic Art Gallery with a new, imprudently added, side stone segment that emerged after our warning and which, we assume, was supposed to be a solution to the problem they encountered.
Our stone bench is an original intellectual creation in the field of art, that is – an author’s work, and behind it are years of developing talent, hard work, and investing in education.
It terribly saddens us that we live in a society in which individuals are completely insensitive to claiming this type of work, that they do not value intellectual property and do not consider its theft a personal injury.