Post #445329 by Cammo on Tue, Apr 7, 2009 5:51 AM

Hey Alien -

Are you kidding????

He made this one piece for a friend! This is in no way taking food out of your kids mouth!

And Alien - your own designs are completely unoriginal. Cannibal tikis are thousands of years old, so are the designs at the sides of the eyes, etc. There is a Tiki at the Bali Hai that Oceanic Arts did that looks very similar to this one. It's about 50 years old. Who cares?

I like the work he put into this.

And if you look up your copyright legalities, you'll see that you cannot copyright a style. Everything that is hand carved is an original work of art and therefore does not infringe copyright. I helped draft legislation in the 90's about exactly this type of thing.

So if you don't have anything positive to say, don't say it!