but then
isn't that plagiarism?
(Assuming that the big houndstooth thing trickled down from Alexander McQueen)
And further, why isn't Lunchbox giving you shit for that? Is it because he only deals furniture? But I thought design is design, and plagiarism is plagiarism.
Its not complicated. And do we shoot the OP if it turns out he IS going to make a bunch of them? What if Lunchbox IS right? Then what? Didn't we still all have a great time giving each other shit? And its not like his work is gonna fool anybody anyway. We see these on ebay all the time. They sit.
There is edge bevel degree, top material, underside paint or laminate, label, exact kind of bends in the wire, the zinc coating, the list goes on and on, just like me.
In this case...
... then nothing. That's business. It isn't as respectable, as Aunt Mark said, but it's not a crime. It's more about the paranoia that people are going to be mass-producing copies of things that causes such backlash so quickly. Let's wait and see before throwing him under the bus and calling him dishonest and all they other kneejerk reactions.
Lunchbox...
... your rhetorical skills are a little rough, specifically the analogies. You're trying too hard to prove a point that doesn't exist. If somebody wants to make their own person Honus Wagner baseball card, then what possibly objection to that could you have? It does not compare.
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