Commodore USA puts Marko Hirv's name back

[Piru]

Piru posted the entire work.

I did not. It's much smaller resolution and less colors. I did no changes to the artwork other than scale it down and reduce the colors.

To quote wikipedia: "The copy is of sufficient resolution for commentary and identification but lower resolution than the original image. Copies made from it will be of inferior quality, unsuitable as counterfeit artwork, pirate versions or for uses that would compete with the (potential) commercial purpose of the original artwork."

The entire scaled down image was needed to demonstrate the changes Commodore USA made. It would very hard to do so without displaying the image in question.

If you try to accuse me of something, please at least get your facts straight first.

[Piru]

@Piru
You did reduce the quality a bit, but certainly not enough to keep it from being able to compete with the (potential) commercial purpose of the original artwork.

The original is 1504 x 1152 24bit.

The version in the embedded animation is 627 x 480 256 color with heavy dithering (due to shared animation palette).



If that isn't quality reduction I don't know what is.

You also did not need to post the entire image to comment on it

The changes would have been difficult if not impossible to explain without. There were already confusion earlier regarding how the image was modified.
 Posting a quick reduced quality animation makes it easily obvious what I'm talking about. This falls within fair use.

I consider this matter closed.

Commodore USA however still continues to use the image in their marketing material under the label "Introducing our all new, all-in-one Commodore 64bit computers for 2010" and "2.66 GHz Intel Core I7 processor, NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M with 512 MB, 2 TB hard drive, 4GB DDR3 SDRAM, BLU RAY drive. Available late 2010".

[Piru]

Commodore USA has changed the products page.

Now it says: "Taking the styling cues and inspiration from the futuristic rendering above by Marko Hirv, and the contemporary elegance of our Phoenix model below, to the classic retro design of the original C64, we'll be introducing a complete line of Commodore and Amiga branded computers in the months ahead."

google cache of the old page