Copyright Infringment in Design Contest!

[Alhanelem]

2. It was not a "similiar" looking Picture, it is in fact identical. Not only in shape also in Color.

I don't care how identical it is. Wether or not an infringement is taking place is not the issue here.

You need not go into any detail, regardless of your English knowledge. I arleady throughly understand the issue. You clearly don't understand what i'm trying to get at here. You seem to think I'm defending the act taking place here, but I'm not.

simply fact what the person did: Copied an allready existing Design. hurts copyright of "some person", if this person agree's with this or not, is way beside the Point. It was simply breaking the Rules of the Content.

That's fine, but it's not up to you to enforce the rules of the contest. It is up to SE to enforce its own rules and/or up to the copyright holder to exercise his rights. You can notify SE if you want, but this forum is not the best way to do that, as I've already pointed out multiple times. If SE decides that someones rights are being violated, I'm sure they will disqualify that entry.

A friend of mine made me a sculpture of a character from a Final Fantasy game. Technically, this is a copyright violation, because SE owns all the rights to those characters. However, it's up to SE to decide they're bothered by it and to tell me to destroy it / not make any more likenesses to their characters. A copyright holder can decide that they are not in fact bothered by someone's use of their work and allow it to pass if they so desire.