Did Apple's iPhone TV ad rip off Christian Marclay's idea?

By iPhone News Blog Staff on March 28, 2007 7:16 AM | | Comments (0)

RadarOnline has a report out today that Apple may have "ripped off" the idea for the iPhone television ad that ran during the Oscars. The work in question: Christian Marclay's "Telephones".

Marclay claims that Apple approached him about using Telephones and he declined the offer. They approached us [about using Telephones] and I said no, and then they just went ahead," he says. "The way they dealt with the whole thing is pretty sleazy."

Marclay has decided not to sue Apple... yet.

So are the ads similar? You be the judge!

Marclay's Telephones starts at 3:38 in this YouTube clip.

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