Artist accuses Snapchat of ripping off her design for a filter
Sara M. Lyons, a California-based illustrator and designer, has accused Snapchat of ripping off her design for one of its filters. The design in question, a pair of hands making the “whatever” sign, was a filter available to some users last night and this morning.
Lyons points out on Twitter that although her original design is fairly simple, the finger placement in Snapchat’s filter (above) and her own illustration (below) is very similar. Lyons says Snapchat’s filter looks like a traced and flipped version of her illustration.
before it was anything else it was just a drawing i did in february 2013. i coined the phrase, i hold the copyright, IT’S MINE. pic.twitter.com/oJbPL3iIiF
— SARA M. LYONS (@saramlyons) May 31, 2017
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