Quote:
Originally Posted by Hellmark
Now, I do believe that the cover on the HC book is a copy, because it has too many similar elements and themes. It would be like if I were to make a portrait of a rennaisance woman, up close, without a smile, with rolling hills as a back drop, and claim no similarities to the Mona Lisa. Also, if HC wasn't being shady, why pull the cover?
|
Frankly, most renaissance portraits look more alike to me than the two paintings brought up here. It's the details that differentiate each portrait, and not the elements and themes. I think you could produce a portrait of a woman with all the same elements of the Mona Lisa and not get into trouble if the portrait was of a different woman and the backdrop wasn't identical. However, if it's wrong to have similar elements and themes in two pictures, then 99% of portraits are wrong in that way. I'm sure many a portrait was commissioned with the instruction that it look like some other portrait that the patron fancied. I think that in this case, we have pretty much the same situation.
As for HC pulling the cover, they probably want to avoid the scenario abookreader brought up, where they look like hypocrites. Looking shady is just as bad as being shady in the public eye, without the perks.