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Mini OP/ED: Terminator VS Metal Gear
Date: 10/19/2005
With the issue of image plagiarism prevalent in today's news I remembered a comparison photo a friend of mine showed me a few years back. On the left, you have a publicity shot featuring actor Michael Biehn playing the role of Sergent Kyle Reese in James Cameron's 1984 Hollywood film The Terminator. On the right, cover art of Solid Snake from Hideo Kojima's 1986 MSX title, Metal Gear. Are these images the same? I truly wonder how common this phenomena is, and indeed where do you draw the line between pale comparisons, plagiarism and blatant ripoffs. In the final analysis, it's a human mind that processes these concepts just as it's a human mind that commits the questionable act, and as we all know this mind is far from perfect. In the case of Hana No Eden, posters on an internet chat board first discovered the copying was going on, was it the same medium with such ease of access to imagery that might have also encouraged it? Did time and the state of communications and technology existing in the 1980's prevent similar questions from being raised regarding the 2 photos to you right?
Source: Anime News Service