Re:Sydney Marathon medal mistakenly depicts Munich stadium
by zimpenfish on Sunday August 23, 2026 @10:24AM
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To 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
Re:Sydney Marathon medal mistakenly depicts Munich stadium
by layer8 on Sunday August 23, 2026 @11:01AM
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It 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”.
Re:Sydney Marathon medal mistakenly depicts Munich stadium
by patrickmcnamara on Sunday August 23, 2026 @09:41AM
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Wow, the sculptor got 3.5 million USD for copyright infringement from his copycat statue.
Re:Sydney Marathon medal mistakenly depicts Munich stadium
by adalacelove on Sunday August 23, 2026 @10:28AM
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The Statue of Greed, located appropriately at a Casino
Re:Sydney Marathon medal mistakenly depicts Munich stadium
by thomascountz on Sunday August 23, 2026 @11:36AM
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More like, "Statue of Litigancy", am I right? /s
Re:Sydney Marathon medal mistakenly depicts Munich stadium
by jryle70 on Sunday August 23, 2026 @10:46AM
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If 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?
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.