ops, GAP did it again
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- freshdude0
if the photographer gets money, he needs to give money to jaguar.
he didn't do anything.
- PonyBoy0
He needs to give money to the electric company for running the wires just as they did... and then he needs to give God a few bux for making the light just right to reflect the wires in such a fashion against the crapuar... and then he should give me a few dollars for wasting my time by not slightly adjusting the wire's reflection ever-so-much so you and I wouldn't waste the time discussing dumb crap such as this online.
fuck gap
fuck faguar
fuck flickr
fuck gap
fuck the artist
fuck gap
- randommail0
Clearly it's the same image.
The yellow circle is in the photo AND the t-shirt!
- Atkinson0
no rip off, just very lazy
- sebastianfrench0
it's sucks with copyrights laws.
They can argue, it's on a different medium (t-shirt) not a photo print.
- betelgeuse0
as the article states, chances are GAP weren't the ones who created the artwork
- i meant "created the design"betelgeuse
- of course not. they need to protect them self.akrok
- time to hire an indonesian intern for a week, just to fire him tomorrow morning!Miguex
- akrok0
oohgap!
- Dodecahedron0
a Sheppard Fairy piece?
- Miguex0
- vectorising with precision takes a lot more thought and skill then using a photoshop filter though.Amicus
- but the photo used on the tshirt has maintained some recognizable features of its uniquenessDodecahedron
- HEY! those are my speakers I tried to sell on EBay! I'm suing!fooler
- hahaha, well to be honest I only traced one, the other one is just a mirrored image hahaMiguex
- return my TR-909. NOW! lol.akrok
- Brett?Ancillary
- fooler0
My step grandfather collected antique cars and someone in the 80's took a picture of his STUTZ and made a poster and greetings cards out of a picture he published of it.
He ended up suing them for royalties but I'm not sure how much he collected.this is for visual references only but his car did look exactly like this.
- Amicus0
I'm not really sure how I feel about this.
If the t-shirt artwork is a rip-off, then couldn't the car designer also claim the photo is a rip off?
The line isn't so thin or black and white, is it?
- abettertomorrow0
LIFE IS A RIP OFF
- randommail0
If it was a fashion brand that purported to be about uniqueness and originality, then I'd probably feel cheated.
But it's the Gap. So who cares.
- abettertomorrow0
No need to reinvent the wheel
- Amicus0
Further to my half arsed question above...
I'm not saying it's right. Just that I have questions about where exactly the line is drawn. The car is clearly still a Jaguar, even though it's been photographed and then had a PS filter run over it. (pardon the extremely weak pun)
If someone had painted the same image (as the gap art) and then had it silk-screened would it still be a rip? Is it the work itself, or the amount of work that goes into it that makes it original, or is the idea to use the art in that way what makes it original?