This is every artist’s nightmare.

The poster on the left is an independent one dreamed up by Eileen Steinbach to draw attention to her own brilliance and potential value as a collaborator; she shared it with the world more than a year ago.

The one on the right is the official preview poster for Luc Besson’s DRACULA: A LOVE STORY, due out this month.

This is an obvious and galling theft of someone else’s imagination, skill, and outright labor. But it’s probably worth pointing out that the same appears true of Besson’s film, which looks so much like Francis Ford Coppola’s BRAM STOKER’S DRACULA that some costumes, character, and location designs — as well as entire shots — seem wholesale stolen.

Artists have always drawn inspiration — you might even say “borrowed” — from other artists and earlier works. But it’s a whole other matter when the plagiarism appears so obvious you have trouble distinguishing between different pieces of art.