Plagiarism?
One of these things is very much like the other! The design on the right is currently on sale at Target, the painting to the left is my own, created several years ago. Hmm.
Fortunately, Vonster has some great information on copyright infringement. If any of you have had a similar experience, I’d love to hear your thoughts and what you did about it.
January 22nd, 2010 at 2:57 pm
Check out what Ellen Crimi-Trent did when her rug designs were ripped off by Paula Deen’s company: http://tinyurl.com/yjgdqb8
I actually have those boots in my Kaboodle wishlist - GREAT design; now I wish it had been an original, instead of copied from yours…there’s nothing worse than infringement
Good luck!
January 22nd, 2010 at 3:08 pm
Wow, thanks for the link, Catherine! What a story!
January 22nd, 2010 at 5:37 pm
wow. you have got to be kidding me …get em EZ
January 22nd, 2010 at 6:28 pm
Check out: http://youthoughtwewouldntnotice.com/blog3/
Consider posting about this there. You might get some good feedback.
January 22nd, 2010 at 8:47 pm
That totally sucks! Let us know how you go with it.
January 24th, 2010 at 9:55 pm
Wow, what a coincidence (wink wink). That is so wrong - it will be interesting to hear the rest of the story if you decide to contact them.
January 26th, 2010 at 10:01 am
i have seen similar birds before, i think you are very creative, but i am not sure if you’re the only one that’s come up with a design similar to that?
maybe i am wrong, or missing something more detailed?
either way, hope it works out for you.
January 27th, 2010 at 2:19 pm
Actually, the first think I thought of when I saw your design was one of the Woodstock posters–very similar.
January 27th, 2010 at 2:56 pm
I agree that all artists are influenced by the work of others, I know that I am. But I try hard to never copy someone else’s work. I probably wouldn’t be so skeptical if there wasn’t a recent trend of big companies “borrowing” ideas from Etsy sellers. I actually found out about this through someone who thought that I was commissioned to create this design for Target.
March 2nd, 2010 at 8:13 pm
http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/04/10/what-do-you-do-when-someone-steals-your-content/
This may be more applicable to text plagiarism, but full of good resources and guidance for how to go about dealing with content theft when it happens. Hope you can get it resolved.
March 5th, 2010 at 10:05 am
Yours is better Erin! I always loved what you did with the type.
March 9th, 2010 at 3:53 pm
Sorry, it’s a bird - concentrate on creating not policing and making things what they aren’t.