(top) The original art; (bottom) The alleged theft
The band Cute Is What We Aim For allegedly has its Rotation CD cover ripped off from Alphabet Arm Design's Counting Crows t-shirt merchandise. The CD was released in 2008 while the Counting Crows shirt designers produced their merchandise in 2004. The design agency alleges that the band or its reps contacted them for a possible design project for the band's next album. After much deliberation, the project didn't pull through. Then, later, lo and behold, Rotation.
These days originality in the art and design world is a high value commodity. Maybe this principle has led some practitioners and poseurs to toss it out the window and build on someone's art work, instead. No worries. Art vigilance is my expertise and I am the Art Voyeur at your service. I am peering into secret windows to see what no one else sees...
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