hi Luis , you are the "devil lawyer" ..... coincidence ...... by customisator , i mean lots of customisator in the world , i don't speak only for me : for example there's a french who make a geisha very near the playmobil one , r unglick stole the picture for his book (without autorisation) and now playmobil do one , i think they just have to ask to have a "yes you can" .... but they don't ... bad education ...
i agree with you : a seller will never (rarelly ..) do a identical copy , he will change few things to say he only get inspiration .... i don't think they's so many coincidence possible , an oportunist is an oportunist .... (i only speak about the fact doing money will ideas of other people) playmobil write to to ask me to not sell one lara croft because they don't want to be associate to "label" , how many lara will they sell ? i don't think i can have a problem to sell one lara but i will be happy if the creator of this video games plaint agains't playmobil who never pay autor taxes (lego do !) you think they have the Elvis presley family to make money on his image ? (not 1E , thousand figures !! )
in french , there's a seller who take a lot of ideas of malone to do his one very fastly (not copy) , it's clear he doesn't think by himself doing think like that , you could say he his just inspired , i call that oportunism because it's to make money .
we live in a materialist word , few years ago i was considering me as an idea seller but noone pay for that if it's easy to do the same ! (i start bying custom years ago considering i was paying few euro for ideas ) Music , ideas etc ... people consider all theses things as free . i think exactly the contrary : i say to my daughter the only think nobody can steal you is what she have in mind , tomorrow a tsunami , no house no car no clothes but your capacity of creation , what you learn will still be with you .
