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Bare-faced plagiarism, on a T-Shirt
I thought having my Playstation 3 review ripped off was annoying, but how do you think these cartoon artists feel?
Some no-talent called Todd Goldman (aka "Goliath") has ripped off the work of several artists, and used the plagiarised designs to sell lousy T-Shirts. Want to know what makes it even funnier? Goldman has threatened to sue the sites that originally uncovered the theft! You literally couldn't make this up - what an ass!
Let's have a look at some of Todd Goldman's greatest original intellectual properties! The first one is curious, it seems to suggest that Goldman's idea of intellectual property is "colouring in". I especially like how he's added his name to it, presumably out of guilt!
Roman Dirge (author of the comic "Lenore" and writer on "Invader ZIM") is the next artist to get ripped off. Goldman's company couldn't even come up with a new pose, let alone a new character design! Dirge talks about the theft on his LiveJournal page and includes some more insight.
And here's a character created for an Intel commercial by Chip Wass. I guess the mouse-strokes required to draw eyeliner under both of the "new" character's eyes was just too much hard work for Todd and co.
This kind of stuff makes me seriously pissed, and profiting from it is just outright twisted. It's not just these three images either, other artists have also been ripped off. See the post at CartoonBrew.com for more on this... interesting man.
His lawyer goons claim that "the hosting of such statements and/or URL links about Mr. Goldman is actionable defamation and libel that has caused irreversible damage to his character". Um, guys, Mr. Goldman has done quite enough damage to himself without you making it amusing, don't you think? Why don't I go and rob and old folk's home tomorrow? I'll still be liked, so long as nobody posts about it on the internet!
Sources: CartoonBrew and SomethingAwful Forums
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Sick and scary. thank you for bringing this to my attention