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Wow, Wizards really needs to better vet artists or indeed artwork at this point.

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[–] DarkDarkHouse@lemmy.sdf.org 26 points 5 months ago (10 children)

The more I look, the more these differ. Similar, for sure, but actually different. Can someone more familiar with what constitutes an infringement here chime in?

[–] MysticKetchup@lemmy.world 11 points 5 months ago (3 children)

If you flip the art it becomes even more apparent. You can see the background follows a similar composition as well. Not sure if it would hold up in court as a one-off (assuming this is the only case of plagiarism), but certainly enough for WotC to drop the artist

[–] Semjaza@lemmynsfw.com 8 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Wow, I didn't catch the background.

Now I'm wondering if the other figure is lifted from somewhere too?

[–] nonprofitparrot@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It's stolen from an old pulp magazine. The whole image is just a collage of stolen art 😂

[–] Semjaza@lemmynsfw.com 3 points 5 months ago

Yup, I think only the axes and maybe the elf woman's arm are yet to be found at this point.

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