@Somnium
Let me help you understand the issue.
Sony creates a logo. Sony drops logo and stops using it without creating a (publicly available) vector version (needed for proper scaling and stuff to print on merch).
A fan recreates logo in a vector file (generally done by hand and can take a lot of time and effort to get right). They do not claim to own or have created the logo - just that file version (which was still a lot of work).
Another person comes and uses the other fans work, without disclosing that information to even the first fan, and then makes money off of it. When called out for it, they were a d***.
The first fan "stole" nothing. The issue isn't even that the other fan "stole" - it's that they're making money off of work they didn't do and then act like they're not in the wrong. The first fan wasn't trying to make money off something they didn't make.
Clearly different.
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Re: "I'm Genuinely Sorry" - Fan Account Devoted To Celebrating Sony's Design Legacy Apologises For Plagiarism
@Somnium
Let me help you understand the issue.
Sony creates a logo. Sony drops logo and stops using it without creating a (publicly available) vector version (needed for proper scaling and stuff to print on merch).
A fan recreates logo in a vector file (generally done by hand and can take a lot of time and effort to get right). They do not claim to own or have created the logo - just that file version (which was still a lot of work).
Another person comes and uses the other fans work, without disclosing that information to even the first fan, and then makes money off of it. When called out for it, they were a d***.
The first fan "stole" nothing. The issue isn't even that the other fan "stole" - it's that they're making money off of work they didn't do and then act like they're not in the wrong. The first fan wasn't trying to make money off something they didn't make.
Clearly different.