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Ford Motors shamelessly steals official art from Firewatch
- Thread starter DeathSparks
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Chobel
Member
(PS: I have been delighted to see some other devs get into the spirit)
Brilliant.
Mechanized
Member
(PS: I have been delighted to see some other devs get into the spirit)
It's disturbing how this is somehow appealing to me. Probably game devs should reach out for more broad co-marketing deals.
Im wary of recreating somethings, I try to make it different enough that the design is its own thing.
But yeah remaking the Firewatch image is a half of an hour work, maybe another 15 to tweak it to make it different and more original.
But I can't tell you how many times I had a supervisor walk past me and tell me just use that and just crop out the names or words.
I have told that we can be sued but I'm just told either a) it's only going to be on_____ no one going to notice. b) were a small company no one is going to notice or c) that's inefficient and we want this done within the shortest time frame so just take something online and have it done by the hour or you're more then welcome to leave if it's too much work to tweak a image for you.
Recreating something is usually called "reinventing the wheel" and that I shouldn't do it if it's already made for me.
-sigh- I have recreated stuff all the time and got yelled at for taking the time to do because I took an hour and not 45 minutes. I think i remember the job didn't even have tablets or would even let me install mine onto the computer.
What you have to do in this career path is so frustrating. I wish I had a tougher voice and sound more threatening or alarming when I warn the places I worked at about this shit.
thebigmachine
Member
Getty will come after your ass hard if you grab something of theirs from a image search result. My old job found out the hard way.
User 479360
Banned
Wow, that's egregious and lazy.
memoryswap
Neo Member
It think that many of you think you know what the word means, but have never actually read a proper exhaustive definition.
Plagiarism is a pretty open term that isn't restricted to stealing the actual work of art but also includes STEALING IDEAS i.e. The blatant knock-offs like the ones I've shown. If you paid attention, I said that they were conceptually 1:1 copies.
From wiki:
"Plagiarism and copyright infringement overlap to a considerable extent, but they are not equivalent concepts, and many types of plagiarism do not constitute copyright infringement, which is defined by copyright law and may be adjudicated by courts."
I don't know what else to say here. I feel like people are getting defensive because I'm attacking games they like, which is completely besides the point.
No, none of the examples I've given represent coincidental overlap of ideas. It is conceivable that such a thing can happen by accident but it's absurd to pretend that the hitman shot, for ex., is an original idea, made by someone who had never seen Skyfall. Let's be honest here.
Holy shit lmfao
dead_lighter
Member
Is this fordwatchgate moving forward to a new trend in ads? I love this shovel knight ad!
wait, what?
A Link to the Past
Banned
Stuff like this is super common in games. The image is of course reconstructed and content is different but conceptually, it's a 1:1 copy. It's reprehensible.
...Nope. Font's different, Hitman has stylized font, the red is a different color, the grey logo in the background is positioned differently (and is completely different), etc.
White background with black and red text (not even the same red mind you) is not a unique concept. You could probably find many other things in that vein.
Diprosalic
Banned
Imagine you are are teaching a graphic design class and you have two students submit the logos I posted - would you shrug it off as 'not plagiarism'? Come on now...
more "inspired by' stuff:
you are not serious right?
A Link to the Past
Banned
Imagine you are are teaching a graphic design class and you have two students submit the logos I posted - would you shrug it off as 'not plagiarism'? Come on now...
more "inspired by' stuff:
First image set has a different color for the inner part of the jacket, and the jacket in one has a black part while no black part is visible in the other.
Second image set is an -extremely- common perspective and scene. Probably seen in media many thousands of times. It's a common sense approach to that kind of scene because it looks nice and lets viewers/players take everything in. As for claims of plagiarism, one scene is tinted blue and the other green. The light fixtures are different (both use fluorescent lighting because it would be strange if neither did). No clock in one image, table is turned a different way.
plasmawave
Banned
Stuff like this is super common in games. The image is of course reconstructed and content is different but conceptually, it's a 1:1 copy. It's reprehensible.
I can't tell them apart. HALP!
SomedayTheFire
Member
Some people on this site have a really REALLY weird reaction to stealing.
memoryswap
Neo Member
LOL ...I give up
DeathSparks
Member
Campo Santo just posted this, I love them even more now
Almost all car dealers are franchise owners, the car companies do not own or operate the dealership.
https://www.reddit.com/r/ANormalDayInRussia/
This subreddit is dedicated to russians wearing adidas (and knockoff adidas) tracksuits. Also there is a lot of dashcam videos.
Not saying the dude ain't Russian but that's definitely downtown Montreal, Sainte-Catherine street. The Reddit says "Just your everyday occurrence in Russia". Still ugly af.
Slightly embarrassed to say my cell phone case is similar, though a different phone, lol.
There was nothing to give up except your absurd claim that it is plagiarism.