Board Thread:Off-Topic Discussion/@comment-30602727-20140419162730/@comment-24785637-20140420063618

I wonder where art theft begins. What do you think? I know a lot of people who copy poses from existing pictures. I'm not sure how to describe so I show you an example: [|Picture] - [|Original]. Inside the book there is the original picture bigger. I own the book.

Is this art theft? I wouldn't call it "using references" but "coping". Without crediting this is a big no no to me. It's also theft, I think. I know really a lot of people coping pictures this way, just calling it "using references" when they even say something. Most of the time they don't say anything and claim it as their own original work.

Sometimes pictures look similar, that's anavoidable. But you can see if someone wanted to copy or wether it just turned out in a similar way.