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Originally Posted by sezmra  It makes no freakin' sense to rip someone's work that is clearly not categorized as a merchant resource. There's just so many leetle "WTF" questions around this whole mess. |
I can see someone thinking the license allowed for making an
SL skin and it not being intentional infringement, but as I mentioned before, I'm too nice. The important thing at this point is the response, and that hasn't helped the matter at all.
It's very common for two different skin makers to produce something that looks so close that it raises suspicions, especially among those doing photorealism. The reasons for that are pretty obvious. There's only one good source for licensed photos and everyone uses it. Two skinners using the same source and very similar techniques will naturally produce skins that look very similar. Lost, Namssor, and I all have skins that people might think were one of us ripping the other and then modifying it. The evidence in this case looks pretty damning, but to me it's not totally beyond the realm of possibility that it could still be coincidental. That's why I'm always very hesitant to declare anyone guilty.