> art has always been about taking existing images and ideas and tweaking them to make them your own It's an open secret in the art world that modifying existi

> art has always been about taking existing images and ideas and tweaking them to make them your own It's an open secret in the art world that modifying existing works and putting your own spin on it is a common technique. But blatant copies with no such 'spin' on the original need to be called out. Also there are places like China who do clean room reverse engineering of existing tech and make new tech in the same likeness, but the engineering is completely different from the original. It's how they avoid IP/copyright suits.