A good designer copies other people's logos, great - steals.

I “copied the works”, slightly corrected and handed over to the teacher in Russian.
I copied other people's programs, corrected the code, experimented, developed and made my programs.
I copied someone else's signature.
I even copied other people's texts and pictures. He worked and sometimes got great results.
Or did I steal everything?

In his article, Ferdinand Vogler raises the question of how copying is different from theft and whether everything is so terrible with copying.
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It’s not a fact that “plagiarists” consciously repeat what they saw before. But sometimes painfully similar things come across.

Our subconscious is a cauldron in which memories from the past are boiled. Any creative person scoops a huge ladle out of this boiler. Sometimes there are large pieces in which a potato or a rat tail is easily guessed, sometimes it is like mashed soup and a fig is not found out if it is fresh by color or smell.

Ferdinand offers his own vision of how to distinguish between copying and theft:

“To steal” is to repeat exactly the same. Companies want a profit on what design brings. Theft is to embroider a Nike logo on a sweater to sell them twice as expensive.

Design is an approach that each copy is made in strict accordance with the standard, which makes copying difficult. Theft is often associated with a discrepancy between the transmitted message and the content. Self-identification and public image are not congruent. This is why it is difficult to fake premium brands. Theft is an insidious attempt not to be detected. "

When does copying turn into a theft? Can I copy to 100%, specify the authorship and publish? Is it possible to create oneself, but indicate someone else's authorship?

Here are examples found / copied from different places of the network. Carefully, there are a lot of pictures.

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