What’s actually happened here is that a designer has lifted an image off the web (probably through a google image search) for a design, and that design has made it through to production.
I’m not saying it’s ok. But I’d be willing to wager that no one at Netflix had any ideas where those images came from. The design was most likely from a design agency, and even the top brass at the agency probably had no idea where those images came from. At the root of this there’s a designer who’s probably been asked to rush out a design, they’ve taken a shortcut and they’ve been rumbled.
Again, it’s not OK to steal images, but I seriously doubt Netflix knew that’s what they were doing.
I’m not saying it’s ok. But I’d be willing to wager that no one at Netflix had any ideas where those images came from. The design was most likely from a design agency, and even the top brass at the agency probably had no idea where those images came from. At the root of this there’s a designer who’s probably been asked to rush out a design, they’ve taken a shortcut and they’ve been rumbled.
Again, it’s not OK to steal images, but I seriously doubt Netflix knew that’s what they were doing.