Chris Foss is an illustrator who illustrated comic books however his work that he had created for a mens magazine in 1970s, was replicated by a British artist Glenn Brown, naming it "Ornamental Despair" in 1994, who sold this at an auction in London for $5.7 million. Foss commented that he knew it was an exact replica through how his original piece had to be cropped for the comic panel and Brown had drawn the cropped image. Brown had not only replicated Foss's work but other not well known illustrators and copied the work of Anthony Roberts, another sci-fi artist and sued Brown for breach of copyright, costing Brown £140,000.
However it is debated whether or not that this is a breach of copyright, through how the design has been painted and looks slightly different from the original image, however I believe that it is a breach of copyright as Brown had stolen the idea and visuals from another artist, there's no debate about it, even if the image is painted so that it looks slightly different, it is still the exact layout, idea and format, and to try and pass it off as one of his own works is theft.
However it is debated whether or not that this is a breach of copyright, through how the design has been painted and looks slightly different from the original image, however I believe that it is a breach of copyright as Brown had stolen the idea and visuals from another artist, there's no debate about it, even if the image is painted so that it looks slightly different, it is still the exact layout, idea and format, and to try and pass it off as one of his own works is theft.
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