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# MTV
do the same thing with 'mash-up' MP3s - get one of their in-house shitgibbons to copy something someone else has put together, but make it shit.
(Wong Fei-Hung - now with added flickr.com (see profile), Tue 6 Jul 2004, 17:23, archived)
# Indeed.
Compare, and contrast.
(witty_ditty has made multiple miaows since, Tue 6 Jul 2004, 17:28, archived)
# 'tis
an infringement
(Reindeer, Tue 6 Jul 2004, 17:31, archived)
# How so?
It uses two completely different source pictures to create a similar image - yes, but they could be argued to be different enough to consitiute a conincidence/inspired by.
(witty_ditty has made multiple miaows since, Tue 6 Jul 2004, 17:38, archived)
# Perhaps
both artists were inspired by the song "Statue of Libery" by XTC
(I helped save b3ta! Mystery_Bob, Tue 6 Jul 2004, 17:51, archived)
# The difference is
MTV will get permission from the copyright holders of the songs first.

So technically, they are in the right.
(I helped save b3ta! Mystery_Bob, Tue 6 Jul 2004, 17:31, archived)