Re: Spot the differences or picture plagiarism(?)

[Steve Walsh <steve.w@c-point.com>]

Luis,

At 04:48 PM 30/05/2007, you wrote:
> Steve (and everybody)... the artist in both of them are me (I did two
> modified versions of these based on different sketches but keeping
> the basics) I don't know why I wasn't credited in the second (that
> actually was the first one)!  Tales about crediting...

Yep, not a word. The only reference to the 
copyright of illustrations is "All illustrations © IMP AB".

> Obviously the first one is the >older< so that's why they might have
> looked slightly >less< good...

I actually thought it was a very good forgery 
:-). My assessment of this book was based upon 
its currency and the quality of the text. There 
are no writing credits either; just a house editor.

> Thanks for letting us know though... I'm not plagiarising myself...
> it's call evolution!

It's confusing when the more derived specimen 
appears first! :-). I'm glad in this case I got 
it wrong but I do know of other instances where my concern is justified.

Steve

> On 30 May 2007, at 03:11, Steve Walsh wrote:
>
> > I have reason to review a lot of dinosaur books. I've often seen
> > illustrations in books of lesser quality that seem to be "inspired"
> > by the work of accomplished artists. In the example I've of put
> > together: http://www.dinosaurcentral.com/pic_comparison/ an
> > illustration by Luis Rey from "A Field Guide to Dinosaurs" seems to
> > have been pretty much duplicated for another much lesser quality
> > book. It has no artist credits but I'm pretty sure Luis had nothing
> > to do this cheapie (in another pic, again very similar to one found
> > in the Field Guide and obviously done by the same artist,
> > Ornitholestes sports a nasal horn). In any regards this kind of
> > thing does seem to happen quite a bit. I'm definitely not a
> > copyright expert and I understand this must be legal but I can't
> > see how this is not a form of plagiarism. Is this not the
> > equivalent of taking a short story or a paper and moving a few
> > sentences about? The newspaper industry certainly have a strict
> > policies about this as this example: 
> > http://blog.fotolia.com/us/ 
> > images/Visual%20Plagiarism_photo.jpg resulted in getting someone
> > fired.
> >
> > Steve Walsh
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Steve Walsh
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