BackdoorArts
Senior Member
I'm guessing more than a few of us participate in various photography sites and clubs where there are "contests", most of which provide little other than self-satisfaction to the winners. Say someone is a member of an online site where these contests take place and they see an image that they absolutely love and set about recreating it. The result is a triumph but more than closely resembles the original, again taken by another amateur. The person then submits their version of the photograph using the same title to a local club-based contest.
You are a member of both communities and are familiar with the source of inspiration for the photograph, and to the best of your knowledge that photograph was an original concept.
Do you consider the submission by the person as something bordering on plagiarism? Is the photograph a forgery? Is it in any way unethical for them to have submitted the nearly identical photo with the same title to a contest that the original photographer would never be a part of? If the answer to any of these is "Yes" in your opinion what, if anything, would you do about it?
Literally asking for a friend so I will save my thoughts for later, while at the same time admitting to having won a tripod in a contest early on in my photography with this utterly unoriginal shot...
You are a member of both communities and are familiar with the source of inspiration for the photograph, and to the best of your knowledge that photograph was an original concept.
Do you consider the submission by the person as something bordering on plagiarism? Is the photograph a forgery? Is it in any way unethical for them to have submitted the nearly identical photo with the same title to a contest that the original photographer would never be a part of? If the answer to any of these is "Yes" in your opinion what, if anything, would you do about it?
Literally asking for a friend so I will save my thoughts for later, while at the same time admitting to having won a tripod in a contest early on in my photography with this utterly unoriginal shot...
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