When hyundi made a car with the same sort of shape as a Dodge Viper did dodge go crazy and cause hype? Alot of car companys take inspiration from other cars and most the time you can tell.
When you look in these Car Mod magazines and you see headlights that are near copies of Ferrari lights, do ferrari take them to court and sue? No.
Lets look at another example, Mobile phones, how many cheaper models do you see that look like Nokias? Alot of mobile phone companies make near copies of rivals and sell them for a cheaper price, do the companys sue? No because they cant.
Another example, I just looked around my room and spotted my girlfriends GHD Hair straightners, very expensive, but yesterday i seen a pair on the high street by Morphy Richards, that were exact clones but at a cheap price.
This is actually funny, ive seen some people request logos for car websites, mobile websites, ipod websites, and they make vector images based on a car/mobile/ipod and nobody complains that the ipod, or the car or the phone is actually a trade mark of that company and you need permission to do that.
For $25.00 what do people expect? If your offering a competition at $25.00 your not exactly reaching out to the creative people who would spend a good few hours on your logo, your reaching out to photoshop newbies who use tutorial sites and want some quick cash for a new domain name.
Fico did not copy and paste, he reconstructed the image and made id different. Maybe if he'd used his head a bit more, he could have made it so that you would never have noticed it was modeled from that image.
