When is it alright to accuse someone of copying your doll/someone else's doll?

If it's the same sculpt, with the same hair color, and you have the same taste in clothing - I don't know. Many people's tastes are very similar, and all these clothing vendors are available to everyone, as well as accessories. Goggles, black hair, a certain outfit. With all these owners, a certain degree of overlap is certainly unavoidable.

Personally, I don't much care. They're my own dolls, and I know what's what. I'd only be miffed if they claimed my doll was theirs.

 

ROTFL LMAO Well Said Lizzard, i couldn't have put it better myself.
Besides you know what they say about imitations being the best form of flattery. Take it as a compliment if someone chooses to copy your style. Be the better person, Instead of getting angry and accusing the person you suspect of copying your doll's style, just see it as the persons way of admiring your style enough to replicate it for their doll. Being humble in situation like this is always better and will result in you having more self-respect as a person, not to mention that you'll feel better for it. Life is way too important and short to sweat the small stuff. Worry about the important things, get angry over the things that count. Like the fact that we have yet to find a cure for many different forms of incurable cancer. (Off-topic i know, but i just wanted to use an example.) Anyway this is just my opinion, just thought i'd offer my perspective.

 

I my self am going through a hard time with this topic, I feel like I'm copying :\

I created a character[I/] a few weeks ago and really wanted to make him into a doll, and I was settled on that. Until a few days ago a found a doll on DoA that had the same name, same race, and ethnicity. But that was after I created the character. And I still want to dollify him :[ I really don't know what to do

 

i can understand how it would be a little unsettelingl. a few years ago myself, my best friend, and another girl were in this Multi-character per person roleplay. Yuki (my best friend) and i put hours of work developing our characters when suddenly the third girl took her original character and began to change their apearences and abilites to match some of ours own! yuki and i confronted her about it and she ended up quitting altogether saying it was too hard to manage anyway. (she did have about 10 characters all played at once, where as at the most yuki and i had only 5 each. but it was frustrating to see our well worked aspects be thrown into a patched up copy and it hurt us the characters where in some cases only a letter off from eachother.

When i got into BJD i went through and carefuly worked out the forseable characters, creating a uninverse and place for them to live in that was unique not a single character of mine is human, although human in apearence i wanted them to be different. i went through and made my own species with my own guidlines on what they were exactly. i gave them backrounds and personalities and realy set them going.
(although Humans and Elves Exist in my univers i have only One Elf character and None that are human yet)

My Kuuta boy is also as default as he could be, default wig , default eyes. but i went and i changed him up. instead of the young-child yos you normaly see my boy is an older Eight. and he acts that way, he dresses that way and i plan on finding ways of setting him apart further in the future.

But i guess learning from my past mistakes, i dont think it is okay to realy ever acuse someone of stealing your doll. in stead i think we should take it as a form of flattery that someone like your creation enough to want something just like it.

 

There are so many people in the world, thats its very impossible to have unique ideas. Also the human brain works like a camera, for example i go through the gallery many times and it can happen that months later i have somehow a splendid idea how to style my BJD. And it comes out that the faceup or whatever excist already...and many had done it like that.

Im not offended if someone copies me...i really dont care.

 

Personally, and this is just me, but I don't see a time or degree that you can accuse another person of copying your doll. I mean, this sounds like as in clothes, mods, eyes, jewelry, ect. Which in my opinion is childish to get worked up about.

If you mean as in "The Doll" AKA your own doll you made out of resin yourself, and has a copyright (And they are SELLING IT!), then yes, now more than ever you need to bring it up. But if this is meaning what I assume it is, allow me to continue.

If this is about mods and clothing, wigs and eyes, and all those things, I think there are some people who need to step back and look at what they are saying. These items that are being discussed are sold at companies that disperse them in large bulk increments day in and day out.

And these modding upsets. Honestly, are there people here who think they are the only ones who love zombies, vampires, werewolves, cat-boys, cross dressers, dragons, mere-folk, myth, fairies, faye, ghosts, twins, manbearpigs? I'm hoping that people know that was a rhetorical question. ><;

I know I sound like a complete shrew here, but I'm trying to point out the ignorance in the argument as it stands in front of me. I’ve had persons tell me things loads of times. This is like that, and that’s too much like this. Doesn’t matter, it’s original to me, that’s all that matters. But when I see the emails and the audacity to get into a confrontation with these people in the threads or in emails-PMs it makes me really lowers my respect for the persons behind the usernames.

Needless to say, no, I do not feel it necessary to cause confliction on such a person level solely because someone else likes what you like.

 

tough call there wolfie, i must admit seeing someone else mimic my style and claim it for thier own would be irritating, but perhaps a post saying, "Ah, my doll is very similar, they even have the same hair" is a way of venting but without saying

"ARG YOU HAZ SOTLEZ MY DOLLZ"! lol

I would like to choose to see it as flattering though, someone had obviously seen your work and wanted to emulate it, but knowing that you have the original article is what counts most and a copy can never beat that.

 

Hehe, I find this funny, because when Dollzone introduced their 60cm boys last year, I swore they copied my doll Dark to create their X2 doll. He has the red spiked hair, dark goth makeup and the black and red eyes. I was geniunly peeved for a few days. But, then I had to face it. A lot of dolls out there have red spiked hair, dark makeup, and dark red eyes. Wheter we want to admit it or not, we all are in the same community and follow much of the same trends. There are bound to be some crossovers because we all shop at the same places and are bombarded by the same aesthetics all the time. We're just too small of a gene pool for too much variation.

 

well if i bought a doll and customised it and everything and suddenly someone had the exact same style of a doll i might be a tad bit upset mostly cuz i like to be independant and different but i can understand because i see dolls and think "omg i want those eye brows!" or that hair or those clothes or even that mold

but no matter how much i like a doll i would never have one created to be the exact same as someone elses because id feel stupid, but i do take notes on certain things i like in other peoples dolls such as their eye brows or lips or blushing


and if someone did have the same doll id try to be open minded and either take it as a compliment or consider the fact that they could have the same taste as me

 

This is an interesting topic, indeed.

I actually lost someone whom I considered to be a good friend because of this. Basically this person had worked on their story and look for this doll for months, but (heres where it gets interesting) their doll hadnt even arrived from Korea yet. Let alone gone out to be customozed by an artist here in the USA. All of a sudden a doll (same sculpt) apeared on the boards. Didnt have the same name or anything, but it looked ,apparently, exactly how this person wanted their doll to look. Was even customized by the same artist. This person became OBBSESSED with that other person and her doll. My friend never talked about anything else. And practically started stalking that girl online. It was terrible. I couldnt take it anymore. My friend stopped answering my phone callls and began what seemed ,in the end, to be a twisted downward spiral of anger, paranoia, jealousy, and obbsession that destroyed our friendship. It leached over from the doll thing into...well, everything else this person did.

It really shocks me to see how someone could react to the idea of someone "copying" their doll. I mean seriously, why is it so important to some people to be abolutly positivly one of a kind in apearance?

 

I actually think it's pretty obvious when someone has copied someone else's doll. There's no originality to the look at all, more so when the doll that has been copied is very unique looking. It does happen. But I mean look at Sard, every single one I've seen has been different and a unique doll in it's own right. It's not hard to use your imagination for your perfect creation.

 

Hmm.... touchy, touchy subject. Yes, I'd be annoyed but the doll would have to be an obvious copy. I mean his same mold, same body, recreating the face up I gave him on their doll, his name, his clothes. EVERYTHING for me to even get upset about it. I still wouldn't go have words with someone over it. What can you do but work yourself into a fit? Imitation happens, such is life. I doubt anyone is spending all this money to replicate a doll out of maliciousness for the original doll or owner, it's out of love for something they've seen. Personally I can deal with that.

 

I believe even in a case of "copying" it will always be different. Two dolls cannot be exactly alike because their owners will differ in so many ways.

It is never right to accuse someone of copying. As said, many members of the community share similar interests and are exposed to the same trends and styles. Moreover, we're all limited, for the most part, to where we purchase wigs, eyes, clothing... Similarities will happen, there's no way around that.

 

GenGen: omg that's a shocking story! O_o not very healthy.

Yes, I don't like it when someone is copying me. But I also think I shouldn't blame anyone. I also get inspiration from very much pictures on DoA. Or artwork from all over the world.
I'm copying just like anyone else, I try to mix stuff and make things more of my own than an exact copy of one thing.

Freedom is a very important thing.
If you can't create a Doll as how you wanted it to look, because someone else allready has something like that. It's very sad. T^T

Sorry for my bad english.

 

I love my friends dolls, I had this one friend that was selling one of her girl dolls that was my favorite out of all her dolls and was the main reason to me wanting a bjd, I wanted to buy her so badly but didn't. To me it felt like copying her, and that thought just urked me. So I didn't buy her, although even now I often think about the poor girl and kick myself saying that I shouldn't have thought that way since I would have given her much love and spoiling and my other girl would have a girl around to be friends with.

 

I will admit to taking ideas from other people's dolls, because we have some wonderfully innovative people on here! However, outright copying doesn't make much sense to me, atleast for my preferences. I wouldn't feel attached to something if it was just a copy of something someone else was attached to.

Like practically everyone else on this board, I thought Hiritai's Hayden was amazing. He was the doll that made me really like the Migidoll Ryu sculpt. So I ordered the head, waited on it... and somewhere in the process of waiting, it occurred to me that I had no idea who this guy was going to be or how he fit in. I had been admiring her doll all this time and never even stopped to think that I didn't, in reality, want mine to look like hers because it was HER doll that SHE loved, and I had no attachment whatsoever. I got so caught up in the beauty of something I saw that I forgot that it doesn't mean much to me unless there is a story there, a character or spirit that I love, something besides a pretty face. I felt very disconnected and ended up selling the head very quickly after it arrived. I still love Migidoll Ryu's, but I don't really have the urge to own one anymore.

For me to accuse someone of copying, they would have to take it pretty far. If someone had the same doll with the same aesthetic and name as mine, I would be peeved, but I would probably just let it go. What's it going to hurt? My dolls are mine and I am attached to them, so what does it matter what anyone else does with theirs?

 

I already know this is going to be a challenge for me. Although I'm hoping my doll will end up being very unique to me and my tastes, there are so many other dolls, and fashions, and aesthetics that appeal to me.

I'll try my best not to copy outright, but there are so many universal things that I think most of us all like to a degree.

Now if someone ends up copying me well...I was asking for it right?

 

how about when someone already has an exsisting doll, named after a character from a movie and novel, then sees your verison of that character- goes out purchases the exact same head, (after asking 3 or 4 times to purchase your doll) tries to contact the same artist that painted yours, (after searching the internet to find said artist) and even after you confront them about how this would be hurtful to you, goes off and hires a different artist to paint their doll in a very similar fashion?

would that be copying?

 

Has this happened to you!? That's horrible!!!

 

Uuuh, a few days ago a friend (which has a Doll too) showed me some pictures because she has bought new eyes for hr doll.

Well, the left eye was blue, the right green, like my Judas' ones
First I was like "Heh, cool....Uhm...has he heterochromia too now?" and she was like "No, at the moment he has only the green ones in his head."

I felt a little bit better, but after she said "Well, he was supposed to have heterochromia, but the pupils of his blue eye is bigger than the green one" I was really upset. And her doll has also red hair :/ I didn't say anything, because I like her. But it's...well...strange.
I know many people like my Judas and having a copy of him right next to me is just strange.
I mean, maybe she likes the same things as me...but...I don't want to see a copy of my boy when I'm talking with her