Imitation as Flattery!!??

In a world where the internet is almost free to all, there are situations where Creative Work / Intellectual Property Rights have been taken for granted. As much as the net is free for everyone to use, I honestly think some people go a tad bit far in copying off other peoples work. If they wish to do so, they could at least leave a mark or an acknowledgment of who is the original owner of the idea/concept/ or whatever it is. I’d like to take for example, one of my absolute favourite web designers around with practically the nicest site every single time, Mr Nick La of N.Design Studio.   Here are a few examples of his work.

How it all started, I fell in love with the colour scheme and I was hooked on N-design Studio.

The wallpaper I had waited forever for: The Phoenix

  Tell me how is his work not BRILLIANT! His work is absolutely fantastic and what is even more fantasticable is he learnt everything he knows by himself,  with a lot of heavy reading in between. Unfortunately his work has been ripped off a lot. And ripped of to the point of where people make money out of it for peanuts. Take a look at Nick’s Flickr page, that shows a collection of ripped off work. The worse I think was the TV station in Brazil. And puhhh leasssee, if you want to copy do it right, by not being terribly obvious! Oh yes take a walpaper from somewhere and blur it just a bit, and tada my own!

  A Print ad from a Bosnia & Herzegovina local TV station – www.rtrs.tv For TV Station???Shame Shame

“Yeap, I created the header”…Sheessh!!! Honestly in all due respect if you wish to copy of a person, at least acknowledge them if not learn from their creativity and make it your own. Everyone imitates one another just take a look at even ads. There are not that many different stories out there then you can conjure up without it at least being heard of before in some deja-vu like manner.