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This Facebook Video Shamelessly Rips Off Charles and Ray Eames
At press time this video had 15 million views, nearly 350,000 shares, 67,000 "likes" and generated over 8,000 comments:
Nowhere are the Eameses mentioned. That video is, of course, a blatant and uncredited rip-off of Charles and Ray Eames' "Powers of Ten," the short film that most of us first watched in design school:
The original was completed in 1968 and it was upgraded in 1977.
That 15 million people have seen the rip-off video is potentially wonderful, as it would have been a great opportunity to introduce a new audience to the Eameses and their contributions to our built world. Instead it is being milked for Facebook "likes" and, presumably, advertising dollars.
The Eames Office YouTube channel, meanwhile, has the 1977 film up with just 5.2 million views.
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The Eame's film is much more watchable. The remix has all those distracting zooming artifacts and it kind it feels cut and paste from a box of stock images.
It might be a coincidence. I don't think it's worth getting excited about though.
half rip off.... the video is much better (newer), and done from scratch.... those claiming plagiarism must be giving credit to whoever drew the first circle. Zooming in and out isnt anything new. do all automakers give credit to whomever created the first automobile?
This is not a remix but a rip-off. Hope they get sued.
How come no one copied the Eames house? I thought it was attractive, inexpensive, easy to build and modifiable.
I think you fundamentally misunderstand the creative process
'mericans... only care about the money ...
Peter, please send us some of your work so that we can "remix" it without crediting you.
What part of China are you from, Peter?