Artwork Plagiarism
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IWishItWouldRainDown
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Well, not sure if you can describe a portrait cover like that. Of course they are similar (close-up, no hair etc), but I assume you would find plenty of those covers in the music world.
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What about the handwriting?
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What about the handwriting?
What about it?
The handwriting is not similar in any way.
P.S. Shouldn't this be under the Phil Collins section?
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I mean, it is not very common to feature on the cover of an album the name of the singer handwritten on the singer's own forehead.
Besides, there are more similarities: a close-up, cut-out the same way, black and white photo, defiant pose...
I know there has been other copycats, but this is the brazenest one.
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Well, not sure if you can describe a portrait cover like that. Of course they are similar (close-up, no hair etc), but I assume you would find plenty of those covers in the music world.
Exactly right, the monochrome close-up face portrait has been used many times for album covers. Regardless of the handwriting, specifically calling the Madonna one "blatant plagiarism" is absurd and could even be potentially actionable if anyone in her organisation saw this thread and was bothered enough to respond - admittedly all very unlikely of course, but anyway the charge is ridiculous.
P.S. Shouldn't this be under the Phil Collins section?
Or better still, the Other Bands etc or Random sections. There's an Other Acts' Album Covers thread somewhere.
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Shouldn't this be under the Phil Collins section?
I also want the other members of the forum to upload album covers that are based on/copied from the artwork from any album by Genesis or Genesis-related artists.
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I also want the other members of the forum to upload album covers that are based on/copied from the artwork from any album by Genesis or Genesis-related artists.
I confess I am now at least getting a good laugh out of this ludicrous thread!
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I confess I am now at least getting a good laugh out of this ludicrous thread
Apart from drawing attention to what I think is a clear pastiche, the aim of my first post is to start a thread in which the other members could post artworks from non-Genesis artists that they think is based from that of Genesis or Genesis-related artists. That's why I haven't included among the Other Bands or Random sections.
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There has been other threads on covers and artworks. So, I don't see how it's ludicrous.
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There has been other threads on covers and artworks. So, I don't see how it's ludicrous.
It is pretty daft to base it on what you started saying very dogmatically is "blatant plagiarism" which you've now amended to "clear pastiche" (it's neither).
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It is pretty daft to base it on what you started saying very dogmatically is "blatant plagiarism" which you've now amended to "clear pastiche" (it's neither).
For me it is blatant plagiarism, I switched to clear pastiche in order as a goodwill gesture.
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Exactly right, the monochrome close-up face portrait has been used many times for album covers. Regardless of the handwriting, specifically calling the Madonna one "blatant plagiarism" is absurd
There aren't many album covers featuring a monochrome close-up face portrait of the singer with his/her name on the forehead in a handwritten way.
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Regardless of the handwriting, specifically calling the Madonna one "blatant plagiarism" is absurd and could even be potentially actionable if anyone in her organisation saw this thread and was bothered enough to respond.
In the same way that Philip Collins Ltd could sue Madge.
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Gosh, it's true! This is what I was looking for.
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Quit while you’re behind.
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In the same way that Philip Collins Ltd could sue Madge.
No, it really, really couldn't, but more to the point they quite rightly simply wouldn't be bothered.
There's a very simple underlying point you're failing to grasp here. Album portraiture frequently features the same tropes, partly because when it's decided to feature the artist's face there's immediately limited scope with what they can do with it unless they go down the route of, for example, the first three PG albums. As a result, the kinds of imagery you're getting all excited about - such as with the Byrne one, and the others where you've convinced yourself you've uncovered some sort of global Face Value plagiarism conspiracy - have existed before and since FV.
However, do please continue on your little crusade as it's quite funny.
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