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Current Talk '24 I / Re: Happy 50th Anniversary, Night of Dark Shadows
« on: June 16, 2023, 01:40:48 PM »
Not until after I'd posted the Spanish poster yesterday did I realize that the design for the cover of the VHS release of NoDS -
(Click here for a 383X700 version)
- (and later the design for the laserdisc cover) rips off, er, borrows the Angelique/skeleton design from that poster. Sure, the design for the VHS box makes a composite using the actual stills rather than a drawing and Angelique isn't holding a candelabra, but it's unmistakably similar.
I wonder if whoever designed the VHS cover image got permission from whomever designed the poster? If the VHS designer was a certain someone, I doubt it because, well, as we know only too well, asking permission beforehand is not in his wheelhouse...
(Click here for a 383X700 version)
- (and later the design for the laserdisc cover) rips off, er, borrows the Angelique/skeleton design from that poster. Sure, the design for the VHS box makes a composite using the actual stills rather than a drawing and Angelique isn't holding a candelabra, but it's unmistakably similar.
I wonder if whoever designed the VHS cover image got permission from whomever designed the poster? If the VHS designer was a certain someone, I doubt it because, well, as we know only too well, asking permission beforehand is not in his wheelhouse...