/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>4789337
>yeah, that is actual plagiarism IF the artist was making money off of it, claiming the works as their originals, or gaining any financial benefit and was hurting the original artist
>>4789377
>you are correct about plagiarism being something you need pretty much a 1:1 copy of something and calling it your own
That's wrong. The very definition of "to plagiarize" is
>to steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one's own : use (another's production) without crediting the source
Ilya never sourced his shit back then and got rightfully received backlash. Why do you think Ilya went through a rebranding, eh?

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