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This isn't the first time Sony's ripped artwork off. Back in early 2006 I left a webpage comment (haha, remember them?) with the admins at Digital Blasphemy (t
by NamTaf 14y ago
This isn't the first time Sony's ripped artwork off.
Back in early 2006 I left a webpage comment (haha, remember them?) with the admins at Digital Blasphemy (that CGI desktop wallpaper site everyone loved back in the day) because I was playing with a mate's Sony W800i mobile phone and noticed that they'd ripped off an image called 'Fluroescence' [1] to create an animated mobile background image - there's a whole series of that image in different colours with different transparencies and they'd just grabbed them all and made an anmiated GIF that faded between them. In doing so, they'd cropped the DigitalBlasphemy watermark in making it a portrait aspect ratio and as far as I could tell not credited DB anywhere.
I ended up getting a 'thanks I'll look in to it' reply, but don't know if anything ever came of it. I figured at the time it may have been the mistake of a lazy artwork designer but part of management of such a project surely must be to ensure that all of the content is legit. It's certainly interesting to see that this company has done this again. As previously, it may well have been the work of a lone employee but it is still the company's responbility to stop that behaviour.
I hope KDE can get a favourable resolution to this problem.
[1]: http://digitalblasphemy.com/preview.shtml?i=fluorescence http://digitalblasphemy.com/preview.shtml?i=fluorescence
- mpyne 14y agoThe Digital Blasphemy guy later worked with some developers to make some PS3 "Live Wallpapers" based on his artwork... perhaps that was in reaction to what you pointed out?