I just saw this Honda commercial on TV.  It looks way too much like Justin BUA’s Art work, BUT I just checked his facebook and he says he didn’t do it.  What do you guys think…did they totally jack his style or am I wrong? Check out the video and the pics I attached and if you want more pics check out his facebook as well.

-Wild Artist Michael Cook

Honda Commercial

YTWWN SAYS :Im not sure about this being a rip, but the game video is worth a watch regardless…
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Autotrader ad

Saw this Auto Trader commercial on tv tonight. It look more than a bit familar, so I went to view an old viral video I remember from a few years back.

1k Project II

Maybe not a rip, but definitely a heavy influence. Not the first time Autotrader has borrowed for their ads, remember the matrix ad?

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As pointed out in the comments, this is more of a rip of the video game movie:

YTWWN: This looks like a rip off but I find it hard to believe they got the rights to use song for the commercial then ripped their video clip idea also without letting them know. I doubt this is a rip

The new 25 Year Anniversary Seat Ibiza TV Spot (2009) is a complete ripoff of “Forever Young” (1975 Videoclip).

Advertisign agencies often cross the thin line between inspiration, reference and rip-off, specially the ones in spain are very good at ripping off other peoples ideas.  Talk about creativity.  To the creative minds in spain: Everyone watches youtube, people WILL notice.

I met this guy named Anthony at a local car shop through a friend of mine. At that time I had my own t-shirt business going, and it was doing decent, but I needed someone local to print my shirts. Anthony said he could do it, so I had him print a set of shirts for me. After much hassling I finally get the shirts, and he messed them up pretty badly so I asked for a refund.

Surprisingly he refused and then ensuded a week long argument, in the end I got my money back and I happily stopped talking to him (this all occured around Summer of 2007).

Fast forward to today, I went to my friend’s shop again, and one of their employees informed me about this Anthony guy jacking my designs with his own t-shirt company. After some digging I got a website and I checked it out myself. Low and behold he was jacking two of my designs and one of my graphics for his banner.

Mine on the right.

Stage 2 Clothing:

http://tinyurl.com/3galrs

Ripping off:

http://importbible.com/design.php?design=iluvsupra

http://importbible.com/groupbuy_design.php?design=altezza

Most likely traced from my deviantArt page here:

http://dyummy.deviantart.com/

Pretty lame! But he goes further and claims that he designed Import Bible (My company) in a local forum.

However I contacted the admin of the site and told him my story and now the post has been removed. I’ve also made sure I passed on the news to every local forum, website I advertised on to make sure this sleezy business practice doesn’t get far.

The Volkswagen Passat ad is dated 2006, and the second one, for Nissan Tiida was made by a Romanian Team, Publicis, to be more precise, in 2007.

and the second one

I have problems posting the ad from youtube, here is the link for Nissan Tiida

It would be great if someone could come with some additional details.

Source: Romanian blog Textier

UPDATE: more details on the similarities between those two ads [also, information on the  agencies that created the ads], along with some other funny/or not so funny facts on Romanian advertising on Joelapompe.

via Iulian Toma

YTWWN: Commissioned see here

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Why buy made in germany when you can have made in china:

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