- After the Carnival festivities, the Donostia Festak association took the decision on the morning of February 25. Instead of rewarding the poster maker, Maaher Abed, the original image designer, will reward Paul Fuentes.
The Donostia Festak association has decided to recognise Maaher Abed as the winner of this year’s poster competition. He will compensate Paul Fuentes, the original designer of the image, for the damage caused. In fact, Paul Fuentes filed a plagiarism complaint.
The association has removed the images from the web and from the places where it has been able to do so and has apologized for what happened. That is, it was a plagiarism for rewarding a design and for putting a picture of a flame to the Carnivals of San Sebastian 2020.
The Jury of the Poster Competition has met in an extraordinary way to decide this issue. He apologised to the other participants in the competition and recalled that no other winner can be recognised, as only one poster is chosen per edition.