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You're clearly a myopic US person who is not aware of the fact that those "funniest commercials" shows started eons ago in the UK, and are not related to "Americas Funniest Home Videos", and Dabitch is an actual name. Plus your sarcasm-dar is completely broken. You should have that looked at.
Since Airbnb paid $12 million in taxes and $8 million on a campaign opposing Proposition F and are still in business, it does seem that your assessment there is wrong. One can however argue that a business doesn't need to be donating money to libraries or whatever else they like, outside of paying taxes, and shouldn't have to - though a lot of them still do.
P.S. Badland's "Dupliclaims" is where we post about twin ideas and rip-off creative. I've even been in there myself as the original one, two, three times the badland, so yes I know how it feels.
Being 'inspired' by art is as old as the sun, and creating campaigns based on what you've found on the web is almost as common. The really weird twins are when a brand simply does their idea again, ten years later. But there's also plenty of cases of people simply reshooting films like the "mafia" pizza restaurant ad twins, the remake of "Mama Mia spicy meatball" for herring, and the bizarre case of Tareknour.tv which got the badland whistleblower arrested.
I really do think there's a good discussion to be had here on rights to creative images / ideas / execution - like when Publicis Piranha Olympic ads copy execution straight from "Forms", and I still hope there will be one. But in the days of Twitter, probably all we'll get is a pithy 140 char snark.
Advertising borrowing from artists is sadly quite a common occurrence. So much so that I started (joke)-numbering them like with the Ads copy art #356 - Harvey Nichols Wolves vs "Head On". Worse, that time when they asked to use Simon Faithfull's escape vehicles for Toshiba, and then just did their own version. How about the time Forever21 did an augmented reality billboard that used the same premise as "A Hand Above" art billboard.
Basically I've written about this type of thing until my fingers bled, but I can't be bothered anymore. I can shout myself blue in the face about "fair use is a LEGAL TERM", not whatever laymen on the intarwebs think it is, and try to explain the difference between copyright infringement vs trademark infringement until I'm hoarse (literally, as I used to broadcast these talks live with our Bambuser plugin), I just feel like I'm repeating myself now.
I certainly don't want to engage in another long twitter thread only two people see about this topic. So thanks for posting this Kidsleepy, I hope Ms Kamprani's case gets some attention now.
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