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ZOMO Anodized CNC Aluminum Kitty Paw Artisan Keycap

Aug 30, 2017

Honest question.. What else could someone do to make something generic like a pawprint look different to advoid these copycat (heh) claims? It's a pawprint.. not really sure how you expect it to be much different.

Aug 30, 2017

Cyphre

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Aug 30, 2017

TheEerieColdOh just another Tuesday on r/mk. People are very protective of artisans and their relative collectibility. To me, it's about the same as claiming someone owns a keyset colorway. So long as someone isn't claiming these are the original, it makes no difference.
The only time there has been an actual case of someone 'stealing' a design on MD was regarding some 3D printed artisans where one could easily reference the existing design file elsewhere on the internet.

Aug 30, 2017

Ziptyze

Aug 30, 2017

TheEerieColdYou are essentially asking "How can someone copy someone else without copying them?" You are correct that it would be very difficult to create a pawprint keycap that would look entirely different from what KK have already created, but that's the point; someone else doesn't NEED to make a paw print. It's been done with little room for artistic interpretation. You could make literally anything else. If someone from outside of the community could look at this keycap and a meowcap and think "oh, that's an aluminum version of the same thing," then it's too close.

Aug 30, 2017

TheEerieCold

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Aug 30, 2017

ZiptyzeSo what you're saying is nobody should ever be able to make a paw cap because KK did it first? The issue is that there is very limited amount of these caps available and the demand is much higher. If KK made more available I could see this as a legitimate complaint, but again there are very few out there. If KK feels like these eat into their sales.. make more of them.

Aug 30, 2017

robblessplode

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Aug 30, 2017

TheEerieColdZOMO can do whatever they want. They can make any keycap they want. Nobody is arguing that.
What people are saying is that its tacky to copy others. Not just copying the design, but copying the idea. Instead of seeing Key Kollectiv's design and thinking to themselves, "we could do that too", why couldn't they think, "we could do something different"? The latter is riskier but the payoff in the end would be much greater than iterating on a design/idea that has already happened.
Does every creative need to come up with their own original idea? No. But is this an especially tacky iteration on an existing and popular design? Yes.

Aug 30, 2017

Skinjob

Aug 30, 2017

TheEerieColdHonest answer?
The artisan keycap crowd are off the deep end. There's nothing wrong with the execution of this cap, and I'd be more than willing to bet they cared more about "everybody loves cats on the internet" than "wow some group make like 50 caps that looked just like this WE CAN TOTALLY MAKE MILLRIONS IF WE RIP THEM OFF"

Aug 30, 2017