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Originally Posted by 99%evil  Garyon are you aware of the total PI history? Anyone remember NY Giant stickers? |
I am not aware of the PI history, but regardless, I absolutely take issue with the suggestion that this design has been plagiarised, as it was a design that
I developed, regardless of PI history. I am not an employee of PI or anyone else for that matter (relating to poker chips anyway) and any history THEY have is not mine.
MS Patton is upset because, apparently he doesn't like that I also use the "Iron Flower" in my design and I run text around the edges. He feels that since HE's used this element and this technique already, no-one else can do it. He couldn't be MORE wrong. He was not the first and won't be the last.
There is a clear lack of understanding of what constitutes plagiarism in the context of graphic design. I have attempted to explain this to him in private and have, again, posted my justifications here in this thread.
To sum it up ...
The Olympic Logo has 5 circles in it ... does that mean no one can ever use circles in a logo again?
At the end of the day ... when my designs were posted no one .. I MEAN NO ONE ... made any comments suggesting a link between my "Private Cardroom" design and ANYTHING sold by MS Patton or anyone else for that matter. Even the name was acknowledged to have been on a Paulson chip before and we had this checked out before we used it.
On the other hand, when
THESE Web Mold Inlays were posted I received a handful of PM's inquiring if I was working with MS Patton.
So it's up for others to decide who is copying who. For me , however, I feel VERY comfortable with my design, it's originality, and the artistic ethics I employed. I sleep very well at night and would not lose a wink of sleep if this were even to go so far as court. - God Forbid.
While I feel that Joe is being too understanding ... I would follow his lead in this and suggest that we just let sleeping dogs lie ... and in truth ... if anyone
can produce a design that was designed
BEFORE mine and is clearly the same design then I will
absolutely retract the design.
People can also stumble across the same idea twice - Bell Vs Gray (Phone) ... I thought I had invented the cheese dog once (I was 6)!! Hey sh*t happens.
(I had actually developed an online bookstore 6 months before Amazon.com went live! My old bosses are now out of business!! LOL)
At the end of the end of the day ... this is and, until someone can prove otherwise, will always be MY design and MY composition, regardless of who gets away with using it. The design in this thread would not exist today if I had not done the PI Private Cardroom chips. And as much of an a-hole as that may sound that's the truth.
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