One of five finalists, in October 2009 he presented his proposal to a panel of judges including officials from Locog and ACE, with illustrations, a slide show and a written brief. He also provided judges with a set of postcards featuring the images.
Mr Sendall said: ?When I saw pictures of models presented by Danny Boyle and his team for the opening ceremony, I was stunned at what appeared to be a copy of my proposal.
?On the night of the opening ceremony, I received messages from relatives and friends asking if Danny Boyle had permission to use my idea.
?Too many of my concepts and visuals appeared in the ceremony to be shrugged off as coincidence. I would have liked to have been asked if my ideas could be used and I would like proper credit for the project which I put a lot of work into.?
Boyle, 56, called his opening scene ?Green and Pleasant?. He presented a model of the idea in June, featuring a spiral mound which he said was based on Glastonbury Tor in Somerset, surrounded by a lake, a farmhouse, and fluffy white clouds suspended from wires, all of which appeared in Mr Sendall?s original competition entry.
Images for Large Spiral Mound, which ACE included on its website during the competition process, also featured a man with an Olympic torch ascending the mound, which was enacted during the opening ceremony.
The artist wrote a blog about his proposal, entitled ?Through the ages?, with accompanying images of how his mound would develop over several centuries.
Boyle?s opening ceremony portrayed Britain through the centuries, using scenes depicting the Industrial Revolution and music from the Sixties through to the present day.
A Locog spokesman said: ?Danny Boyle was not involved in the Artists Taking the Lead programme and would not have seen any of the submissions.
?Danny?s vision for the opening set for the Olympic Games opening ceremony was inspired by the very well known Glastonbury Tor landmark and British history.?
Locog also told The Art Newspaper: "The vision was Danny Boyle's and his only."
A spokesman for ACE said: ?In order to apply for Artists Taking the Lead, all applicants were asked to submit their idea to an open website. It was clear to artists by its nature that their ideas were open to comment and review by anyone.?
Sean Egan, the head of arts and media at the law firm Bates Wells & Braithwaite London LLP, said: ?If it is the case that the creators of the opening ceremony were aware of the image, then the similarity is so striking that we would expect Lee to have a good case for copyright infringement.?
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