Anthony Appleyard opened this issue on Feb 18, 2015 · 27 posts
mrsparky posted Thu, 19 February 2015 at 2:23 PM
Legalise aside - while I don't have any problems with AA doing this, it does make me ponder with situ's like this...
It's a really old model, new work is better etc.
IF someone can get some new mileage out of it feel free.
It's hardly an original concept, indeed one of my inspirations was the helicopter back-pack for the 1970's Action Man (GI Joe).
Should artists still be able to retain their ideas with a medium (unlike say painting) where their creations can modified.
Equally the no part of me wonders things like..It was given to CP/community for the reasons mentioned above.
As a colleague asked recently (similar thing) why would another artist want to 'remake' something old.
Should our older ideas of copyright and ownership a moot point in today's world.
... so whats's the community's feelings about things like this in general?