Download/Rip divide
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- sparker0
but you leave out a fundamental understanding that "style" cannot be owned or ripped.
you said it was a 'stylistic' rip...meaning that it didn't actually copy anyones finished work - or call it their own, it only pertained to a certain genre or style of design...
if style could be owned, then there would be NO design industry...because nothing designers do is every totally original. whether designers' egos allow them to know this is another story...everything you design can be traced to another, previous work.
even international copyright law states that 'style' and 'concept' CANNOT be owned, patented or copywritten.
now, if it was an EXACT copy of someone finished design, and the commercial called it their own, that is a rip.
but just because the commercial used vector art, 3d or pixel fonts...doesn't make it a rip.
why people don't understand this, i'll never know...but it is the facts of the industry and of design as a whole, and has been for centuries.