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How does he get to use those logos before he paid for them? Sounds like multiple copyright violations per contest to me. I understanding that the artist may not be in a position to legally contest anything, but it's clearly unethical.

This is what's in 99Designs faq:

"On 99designs, designers agree to upload only original artwork, so each designer owns the rights to their design submissions.

This is true until the contest holder chooses one of the designs as the contest’s winner. Then, and only then, can the designer agree to transfer his or her rights to that particular design to the contest holder."

Hey there, thanks for commenting.

In the article I mention that I ask the designers for permission to test their logos before moving forward. I let them know that they're in my top 5 choices and tell them exactly what I'm going to do. Since they're the copyright holder, I want to say this makes it alright, but I can see where 99Designs doesn't like it...

I wish I was able to downvote this into oblivion.

Yea, that was the response on /r/Entrepreneur as well :-\

Machiavellian but Pure AB testing.

The reason is called “ethics”.

Why is it unethical?

How I Get My Logos Designed - For some reason very controversial...