Folio Society - Ian Fleming Special Editions

ColonelAdamski

It'll be interesting to see how it pans out. The people that bought the previous editions bought the books featuring specially commissioned original illustrations. What would happen if it came to light the illustrations weren't so original after all?
For my part, I couldn't give a stuff if a an illustration of a face, an arm or whatever else was 'borrowed' from previous artwork, as long as they were pleasing to my eyes. But if it were found the Folio Fleming illustrations weren't 100% original, it does rather put Folio in an awkward position, being a publisher of integrity.
I suspect this might be the 'reasons beyond our control' that Major Boothroyd mentioned earlier on this thread. But that's just guesswork.

Regardless of the controversy, like FoxRox and NickTwentyTwo, I want Dalton doing Octopussy and the Living Daylights.

Please.

NickTwentyTwo

I also happen to be a Magic: The Gathering player lol and it seems like her art there is what was plagiarized... the art in the Folios looks quite a bit different than the art she's credited for on these MTG cards, which makes the naive optimist in me think that the Folio art is in fact original, and some of these cards were plagiarized. Some of them certainly do look like collage-jobs, but still wildly different than her art in the books.

Plagiarized art credited to Dalton on an MTG Card:

IMO, looks quite a bit different than her Folio style.

A Magic: The Gathering card credit to Dalton that looks much more like the Folio style:


The conclusion I'm drawing (pun) here is that I think Dalton has done a mix of original art, and collage-style art without proper accreditation, and my hope is that the Folio art (and this one example card) is original.

Dragonpol

You know it's funny but until now I'd never really thought of plagiarism in art being a thing. I always thought of plagiarism as solely involving writing but that's obviously not the case. It's sad that anyone feels that they have to copy the work of others just to get ahead.

FoxRox

I also expect plagiarism to become a lot worse in every field with AI technology on the rise.