Audi vs Bohn: Inspiration, immitation or rip off?

The inspiration vs immitation has always been a point of discission in design world. When we have a look at some already existing work and get the idea to further develop and implement is it inspiration or immitation? When we need to deliver the spirit of time and design something pretty close to that time and style is it inspiration or immitation? When things look almost identical is it inspiration, innovation or a rip off?
A recently mentioned and popular Audi Russia calendar contains a page which is almost identical to an old poster of Bohn... So, is it inspiration, immitation or just a rip off? What do you think?

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5 best inspirations of the week. Week 6

Autumn is really here and goes on with practicing its designing skills in creation of different color schemes for grass, leaves and sky. Unfortunately mostly cold colors are dominating now... Yet, I'm looking forward for Indian Summer when bright reds and yellows with combine with intense blue and yellow to give us some more day of great weather.

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Audi Russia calendar. Retro-futurism in action.

Retro and retro-futurism becoming a hot trend not only in personal projects and in different logo and packaging designs. Even big guys have already cast a look at this obviously trendy style and as a result, here's a first thing from top companies I found online and would like to share with you - Audi Russia calendar for 2011... And I bet more to come soon...

Check the rest of the months

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Design a day. Day 40: Love Drives

From my two previous submissions with Apple and Vancouver Olympics  I've noticed that some event or brand-based designs get more exposure online... Whether it's a matter of indexing or just people are more interested in those things more than in love, but the satistics proves  - those designs are seen way more often.
So, on a second thought I decided that whenever possible I will try and add the event or brand to my love series to see whether this rule keeps working. So, here's a first conscious effort. Love Drives: Audi Edition