If we create the same icons or very similar ones from Flaticon.com, will they be considered original?

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Design

Hello,
We are developing an Android application and recently started using icons on Flaticon.com, but immediately ran into a license issue.
On Flaticon, you need to specify a link to the author or buy premium access so that you can use the icons for commercial purposes.
We had an idea to create our own icons. The question is: if we create the same icons or very similar ones that were taken on Flaticon.com, will they be considered original and we will have all the license rights, or will it be theft of intellectual property and a violation of the license?
Thank you!

Answer 1

Let's start with the fact that there is no point in redrawing something just so that the source is not downloaded, but created on your own)) You can just create a set of icons by adding something of your own to it. Some nuances that will make the icons special, especially for your project. starting from the color scheme and ending with the rhyme with the logo and its characteristic elements. Anyway, I always try to make icon sets like this)
About the purchase. If you use 200 icons, then it's cheaper to buy a subscription. redrawing will cost more (and the project itself may even be closed in a couple of years and investments will be in vain). But if there are only 10 icons, then just draw your original ones, for business.
And now about the rights and licenses.If you copy and the owners want to get to the bottom (knowing that the rights are violated), they will get to the bottom and easily sue. Moreover, the likelihood that the similarity and violation will be proven depends directly on the authority and ability to convince search engines, hosting provider or judge (if the truth comes to a meeting in court, which is unlikely on the Internet). But whether there will be something at all or not is already a matter of chance)) I don’t know specific examples, but some sites are actively fighting plagiarism and piracy (Envato, for example), protecting their users.
Nekto_Habr is a penny for a large studio) And for one project at 180 bucks a year (at a regular price, not promo) it can be expensive for a dozen icons.

Answer 2

You have a commercial product! If such icons are important, then do not be stingy and pay for a license for commercial use.

Answer 3

if just similar - it can fail. They are all almost the same there, unusual styling is very rare. And if you copy pixel-to-pixel directly, then what difference will it make for the author of the original? Indeed, it’s easier to either indicate the author or pay, they cost a penny. Well, or draw it in your own way (the most competent option, because such shareware stocks very rarely make pixel-perfect icons).

Answer 4

> We had an idea to create our own icons.
I wonder why you didn't have an idea to take some free icons?
> The question is: if we create the same icons or very similar to those taken on Flaticon.com, will they be considered original
. You mean: take an icon, sit down and, looking at it, redraw it in curves?
No , this is not a font, here not only the vector representation is protected by copyright, but also the icon itself (in case it is somehow non-trivial, of course).
> or would it be intellectual property theft and license infringement?
The expression “theft of intellectual property” is doubly absurd in itself, but you won’t reset copyright restrictions that way.