Comments on: FCC cats rips off Doraemon http://www.p2pnet.net/story/9261 p2pnet.net - reader powered Mon, 23 Nov 2009 01:45:22 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/9261/comment-page-1#comment-58846 Reader's Write Wed, 05 Jul 2006 08:55:41 +0000 #comment-58846 I'm not sure we should be so quick to criticize. For a start, the overall body shape, and the gesture, and the bell around the neck are quite clearly a traditional characterization of a cat from China; check a google image search for "chinese lucky cat": http://tinyurl.com/s8m3c however, the circle-in-a-circle face and the eyes as dots in circles, do seem to be unique, and therefore likely copied. But art has through the ages been a matter of learning from others, whether it's the renaissance "style" or rock'n'roll music. Are we to berate all but the first rap musicians for doing something that's tangibly similar to another's work? The fact is, that the alleged "copy" cat contains enough elements that are different, to make it clearly not the same as the other. You could probably find a cartoon character with the same hands and feet, if you tried. Oh, and Happy Independence Day to our American Friends, by the way. I’m not sure we should be so quick to criticize. For a start, the overall body shape, and the gesture, and the bell around the neck are quite clearly a traditional characterization of a cat from China; check a google image search for “chinese lucky cat”:
http://tinyurl.com/s8m3c
however, the circle-in-a-circle face and the eyes as dots in circles, do seem to be unique, and therefore likely copied.

But art has through the ages been a matter of learning from others, whether it’s the renaissance “style” or rock’n'roll music. Are we to berate all but the first rap musicians for doing something that’s tangibly similar to another’s work? The fact is, that the alleged “copy” cat contains enough elements that are different, to make it clearly not the same as the other.

You could probably find a cartoon character with the same hands and feet, if you tried.

Oh, and Happy Independence Day to our American Friends, by the way.

]]> By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/9261/comment-page-1#comment-58675 Reader's Write Wed, 05 Jul 2006 03:16:19 +0000 #comment-58675 I agreed with you at first. But the collar and the outline of the hood are too much alike to dismiss. I smell a rat. I agreed with you at first. But the collar and the outline of the hood are too much alike to dismiss. I smell a rat.

]]> By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/9261/comment-page-1#comment-58660 Reader's Write Wed, 05 Jul 2006 02:48:28 +0000 #comment-58660 Sorry, but to me the two characters don't look that all that similar, other than they're both cartoon cats. The body shapes are very dissimilar and I can easily see how the two designs could have been arrived at independently of each other. Sorry, but to me the two characters don’t look that all that similar, other than they’re both cartoon cats. The body shapes are very dissimilar and I can easily see how the two designs could have been arrived at independently of each other.

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