Did Paula Deen’s Recipe Quest Infringe Upon One other Artist’s Work?

Final month, Paula Deen Ventures and Dream Forge Entertainment launched Paula Deen’s Recipe Quest on iOS and Android devices. The puzzle recreation sees gamers teaming up with the “Queen of Southern Delicacies” to finish match-three puzzle ranges, swapping the places of elements as a way to obtain hyperlinks to actual recipes on Paula Deen’s web site.

These recipes weren’t probably the most fascinating factor concerning the recreation for one observer, nevertheless, as artist Jerrod Maruyama observed hanging similarities between the caricature of Paula Deen from the cellular recreation, and a bit he created in 2012. The sport’s model is pictured on the prime of this submit, Maruyama’s piece is under. Whereas the pictures clearly aren’t equivalent, they appear comparable sufficient to rule out coincidence.

Above, Jerrod Maruyama’s piece from 2012. Under, Google Play screenshot as of April 1, 2015.

Neither Paula Deen Ventures nor Dream Forge Leisure have returned our communications. We just lately spoke with Maruyama, who stated his makes an attempt at speaking with the developer have additionally been unsuccessful.

Take a look at our chat with Maruyama under, as we additionally talk about common artwork infringement and the rise of social media.

SocialTimes: Who introduced the similarities between your piece from 2012 and Paula Deen’s Recipe Quest to your consideration?

Jerrod Maruyama: A fellow artistic on Twitter despatched me a hyperlink to the picture.

ST: Is that this the primary time you’ve got run into a serious entity utilizing your paintings, or, on this case, one thing presumably closely impressed by it, with out your approval?

JM: Whereas there have been a number of smaller instances of this sort, that is by far the incident with the very best profile and publicity. Nearly all of infringements I cope with are small, on-line shops.

ST: If Dream Forge Leisure or Paula Deen Ventures had

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