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Originally Posted by WillAdams
Providing art direction for directly re-creating a particular cover design is certainly not ethical, and fails the ``smell'' test of, ``Would a person believe this work was created w/o access to and knowledge of that work.'' --- moreover, in a court case, such a set of instructions would be a ``smoking gun''.
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It really, really wouldn't.
A clean room reimplementation is not copyright violation.
AMD produced completely Intel-compatible CPUs using the same process. One team would example the Intel CPU and produce a complete specification of how it worked. A second team would take that specification and produce a compatible CPU of their own. As long as team two never actually see the original CPU, this is clean.