Comment by leephillips
12 years ago
Am I missing something? The two posters don't look much alike, aside from having a fairly similar trunk in the foreground at the same angle - and I'm guessing that this has something to do with the imagery in the movie.
Yes, the designer's site is down right now but the issue wasn't that the two posters looked alike. It was that Spike Lee posted the actual, unpaid for comps to his Facebook page. Without a contract or even payment the designer should still have exclusive rights to those designs. The Yahoo news article got that part of the story wrong.
Thanks for explaining that. So it's a clear-cut copyright violation.
I hesitate to pile on, but Spike Lee has consistentlty been an ass in public - something I first noticed in an interview many years ago when he was expressing revulsion at the idea that his sister might marry a white man, because black-white marriages were such a terrible idea, in his opinion. Very sad, because I think he's very talented as a filmmaker.
The field the girl in a pink dress running around with the umbrella, and the framing, the type of trunk, the coloring of the internal liner of the trunk, the man climbing out of the trunk are all very similar. On top of that THEN the implication that this was the inspiration from posting the comps...I think Spike Lee and his ad agency is screwed here if they don't settle.
http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/designer-claims-his-o...
look at the two pictures now.