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Bayern Munich's stadium is one of the more famous in the world. More interesting that 0 people recognised it in the design process.
by jtari3333 25d ago
Bayern Munich's stadium is one of the more famous in the world. More interesting that 0 people recognised it in the design process.
- jfengel 25d agoThe US managed to issue a stamp with clearly the wrong Statue of Liberty. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statue_of_Liberty_Forever_stamp https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statue_of_Liberty_Forever_stam... Which presumably everyone in the design process should have recognized, if not practically everyone in the world. The moral being, uh, it's weird how blind people can be when they're not looking for it.
- patrickmcnamara 25d agoWow, the sculptor got 3.5 million USD for copyright infringement from his copycat statue.
- adalacelove 25d agoThe Statue of Greed, located appropriately at a Casino
- jryle70 25d agoIf you release an open source software with GPL license that is just a wrapper of an MIT licensed library, and someone manages to misuse your software, should you be entitled to damages?
- thomascountz 25d agoMore like, "Statue of Litigancy", am I right? /s
- zimpenfish 25d agoTo be fair, if I'm reading that right, the difference is "a small light patch on the middle spike"?[0] I can see people missing that easily enough! [0] Absent contextual cues about height, location, etc., which aren't on the stamp
- layer8 25d agoIt means that they used a photo with unclear provenance, or they didn’t check the provenance. For issuing a stamp, you don’t just take a random photo of the statue and eyeball it and say “looks close enough to me”.
- pibaker 25d agoIt's only famous if you follow soccer/football. How many Australians know what is the Staples Center? The Soldier Field? The Wrigley Field? How many Americans can recognize the Oval or the Melbourne Cricket Ground?