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by leephillips 4820 days ago
That might be true, but in both my examples, the copy-and-paste artists were making salable merchandise from the works that they appropriated.
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cromulent 4820 days ago
Andy Baio didn't make that image [0], and it's not a copy-and-paste - look at the tie for example [1].

[0] http://waxy.org/2011/06/kind_of_screwed/

[1] http://waxy.org/random/images/weblog/kind_of_bloop_compariso...

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leephillips 4819 days ago
I know that Baio commissioned the art, and didn't personally create it. The decision to just take it rather than negotiate for rights was his. It should be pretty clear from the context of this discussion that I don't mean literally "copy-and-paste". The Disney ripoffs are also not identical to the source - does that mean that there is no issue?
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