Inspiration
09.28.10
New cover of The Stranger "inspired" by Time
The latest cover of Seattle alternative weekly newspaper The Stranger is a straight knock-off of the recent Time magazine cover of novelist Jonathan Franzen. The Stranger profiles novelist Tao Lin. This is the kind of homage/inspiration we like!The Stranger cover: art director, Aaron Huffman. Time cover: art director, D.W. Pine
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This is the kind of homage/inspiration we like!
Say WHAT?
Is this considered inspiration? parody? are there any copyrights on TIME's cover line? It is obvious that they wanted to [literally] replicate the cover, as opposed to being "inspired" to do something simliar, but different. I'm on the fence about this one...