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Please don't blame the victim. This is a legitimate grievance. The polish paper very obviously stole his work.

• steveeq1 11y ago
  "copied" the work is a more accurate word. Not to say that it isn't bad (it is).
  • SG- 11y ago
    Yes, he 'copied' it and likely got paid for it too, it wasn't just going in some personal stash of movies and music on his hard drive.
    • kokey 11y ago
      The brief probably said 'make it look like Bild'
  • cmyr 11y ago
    Plagiarized? This isn't music piracy.
• rtb 11y ago
  I think you mean "copied", not "stole". Bild am Sonntag can continue to use their layouts.
• enkiv2 11y ago
  The polish paper copied his design. But, as the designer, he hasn't lost anything (unless he was bidding for a chance to apply the same design to that polish paper and lost the bid to this other person). He didn't lose money, prestige, or anything else through this. (There's a good reason why look and feel isn't really protected by IP law, except in the realm of trademarks -- because, unless there's some kind of deception, nothing is lost by mimicing the look and feel of something else.) He's not a victim, because nothing has been taken from him. The person who copied his design gained something, and so did the paper that paid that person, but the original creator lost nothing.
• bovermyer 11y ago
  It's very similar, but the design elements are definitely spun in a different direction. For example, the airplane graphic - the design on the tail is the same, but it's a different plane from a different angle with a different backdrop. This is riffing, not stealing. It's a trend throughout art as long as art has been a thing.