It's vague on purpose because it's meant to be decided case-by-case. To put down hard and fast rules is how big companies [i]legally [/i]screw over small people. By making things somewhat vague and up for interpretation, it makes it easier for judges or juries to determine if something is truly an infringement or not. The real problem is in how big companies can just leverage their much larger coffers to drain the funds of the person they stole from, even in a losing battle. They'll be forced to give up eventually which is why many of those same companies are upset that people can use GoFundMe campaigns to pay for legal fees. They're used to bullying with their expensive legal team and near bottomless defense funds, and GFM allows some people to somewhat fight back. This is a pretty clear cut case, though and it's why Bungie has already admitted to the blatant theft and is "working on compensating the artist." Good luck finding out what that compensation is, though: I bet it comes with an NDA.

It’s an interesting confusion in the association…… Copyright and plagiarism are not the same thing, even if they overlap. It’s important to maintain this distinction. Copyright is about maintaining the value of the original thing— and it will always be a problem, because objects prove contradictory, especially in the era of digital technology. There are many legal debates about this, especially in the worlds of art where something can be scanned, manipulated and re-created in a fashion where it might not owe any of its essence any longer to the original thing it was iterated from. It rapidly becomes a philosophical problem…. Plagiarism however is an altogether different beast— because you’re not just using claiming, often without saying so, someone else’s work as your own. It is a much more serious act than an infringement upon someone else’s ownership because you’re not just taking it and using it, you’re claiming also authorship. Copyright asks how much you used and did you make money off it. Plagiarism asks did *you* make it originally.

And apparently the artist left watermarks on them, which are still on the images, in-game. Lmao