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sorry dirkr but if you want to go that way I can tell you like 10 contributors doing that also so why not one more?.. if I read well that´s just stock, there isn´t no limit regarding inspiration!

keep up the good work Air

Yeah, you may want to expand your inspiration repetiire with some other artists too...

I'm a bit confused... Am I in a court?

You probably should be. Or detained in a home for the criminally unoriginal.

I will be curious to see with what kind of pictures you all started...

I'm just a bit disappointed to see how it works here 

sorry, but you invited a microscope and your work is strikingly identical to another prolific contributor's images. there's a line between inspiration and copying. sure, we all want to make money and there is a finite number of salable concepts....but you've basically just ripped off a best selling artist's work. you're not going to get much sympathy or help in a forum populated by microstock peers. maybe post your images in a traditional stock forum..they'd be happy to see a microstock contributor being cannibalized.

Where is the limit of "copying"? (I am talking legally not pride or other..)

I can add that if this will ever stop it will be from agencies not from contributors we don´t own nothing and never will

that´s the exact answer I would want to hear, finally!

I agree 100%.. why agencies keep approving?

The legality might be questionable (or unenforceable) but the ethics are not. It's bad enough to be so blatant ... but then to also request 'congratulations' is simply breathtaking.

If I ran an agency and someone did what the OP has done, if the original artist brought it to my attention, then I would simply close the account of the copier. I believe the agencies do have a responsibility to protect their original artists. I think Ioannis should be informed.

nothing against.. but come on.. look at Andres latest work..

they keep approving A: because inspectors can't be expected to know every image in the databases....B: because even if the images are copied and do squeak through, the agency makes money anyways because it'll sell if it's good enough.

C: there are always going to be unscrupulous people who want to fastest route to making money

To be honest, I wondered this myself. Even though I don't do 3D and don't really look at it, I could see that these were unoriginal. But I also know that many people do similar work.