I think that's missing the point. Everything we buy is a copy of the artist's original. The point is that for Vijay Chadha to say it's no longer her work just because he scanned it is BS. Does Hot Toys say it's no longer a sculpt by Kojun just because they tooled a metal mold of the original? Of course not.
This whole thing reminds me of Andgor Toys, back in the day. That guy didn't pay his sculptors, didn't deliver on his orders, and for years people who got burned associated the sculptors with the ripoff, thinking they were part of the company. That guy also used pictures of sculpts as an online selling tool, when the sculptors hadn't even been paid.
