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by zoul 3132 days ago
Taking a photo of an everyday household item is, in the eyes of the copyright law, an original work of art. It does not matter if they have used it without a license intentionally or not, they just did. What’s dumb is that this is not a poor non-profit we are talking about, this is a big company that makes money depending on the copyright law. If these cases are taken lightly, next time they will do it again – why bother when the chance of getting caught is pretty small and in the worst case you can always sacrifice some pawn?
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It might be. But is it relevant? If they ripped off an entire tv show yes. But, again, im pretty sure they outsource designwork like this.