Spot the differences or picture plagiarism(?)

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

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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