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Tiki Central / General Tiki / The "Imitation is the Sincerest Form of Flattery" thread

Post #652735 by Kon-Hemsby on Thu, Sep 20, 2012 5:29 AM

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Throughout history, its long been established that one artist's work often becomes inspiration for another's. Sometimes though, it's just a shameless copy. Is that bad? When it takes money out of the originator's pocket, I say yes. Many tiki artists are pretty good at acknowledging their creative sources but some folks out there not so much. I realize this is a topic that could be discussed endlessly and I don't expect anything to be resolved here so I'm not going to try.

Anyway, I thought I'd start a thread for juxtaposing works contrasted with their original inspiration.

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