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How our tribute to “The Hacker Way” pissed off a Facebook designer

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Re: How our tribute to “The Hacker Way” pissed off a Facebook designer

#11
"The Hacker Way" is no excuse to steal.

Your intentions are irrelevant. Unless somebody has clearly stated you can reproduce their creative work you shouldn't, nor should you want to.

Please do not use the guise of a 'hacker mentality' to mask your lazy and disrespectful actions.

Re: How our tribute to “The Hacker Way” pissed off a Facebook designer

#12
post #11

"The Hacker Way" is no excuse to steal. Your intentions are irrelevant. Unless somebody has clearly stated you can reproduce their creative work you shouldn't, nor should you want to. Please do not use the guise of a 'hacker mentality' to mask your lazy and disrespectful actions.

Good artists copy, great artists steal?

Re: How our tribute to “The Hacker Way” pissed off a Facebook designer

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post #12
post #11

"The Hacker Way" is no excuse to steal. Your intentions are irrelevant. Unless somebody has clearly stated you can reproduce their creative work you shouldn't, nor should you want to. Please do not use the guise of a 'hacker mentality' to mask your lazy and disrespectful actions.

Good artists copy, great artists steal?

Good artists copy, greats artists steal and make that they've stolen their own.

We are all influenced by the same things, it's what you do with that influence that matters.

Re: How our tribute to “The Hacker Way” pissed off a Facebook designer

#14

Doesn't kinko's handle fairly large prints? Seems like it shouldn't be that hard or expensive to print off a large sheet of paper with some big words in red Impact.

Do you not see this as immoral and disrespectful to the original artist?

Re: How our tribute to “The Hacker Way” pissed off a Facebook designer

#15
i can't even see the problem here if they were selling them for $0 profit. let's assume for a second they sold them for $5 each and that is the actual cost of production. would ben show the same hostility to individuals who spent $5 to make the poster for themselves?

that said, i'd think it was a silly response even if they were selling it for profit. do you really want to focus your creative energy defending your authorship of a white poster board with red lettering?

Re: How our tribute to “The Hacker Way” pissed off a Facebook designer

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post #14

Doesn't kinko's handle fairly large prints? Seems like it shouldn't be that hard or expensive to print off a large sheet of paper with some big words in red Impact.

Do you not see this as immoral and disrespectful to the original artist?

Not really. As far as I can tell, the original artist wasn't selling his works, right? And apologies in advance to all the designers reading this, but the posters are a sentence fragment in a standard font. They're not printing off bootleg copies of the Mona Lisa here.

I suppose I'm being immoral and disrespectful, myself. Should I send Dos Equis a letter of apology, see if KC Green sells prints of his comics, and try to track down both the artists working on the Spiderman show as well as the person who placed text on this image? http://imgur.com/3CHhp

Let me know if I'm factually wrong in any of my statements.

Re: How our tribute to “The Hacker Way” pissed off a Facebook designer

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post #13
post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Good artists copy, great artists steal?

Good artists copy, greats artists steal and make that they've stolen their own. We are all influenced by the same things, it's what you do with that influence that matters.

Why do I think that by your tone and anonymity you are the offended designer?
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