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Re:How Twitter and a community put a smackdown on Urban Outf... by araneae on Saturday May 28, 2011 @09:46AM (#2594418)
The irony is that it's not clear that the Etsy person that was "ripped off" didn't rip off the designs herself:

http://www.regretsy.com/2011/05/27/urban-outrage/

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Re:How Twitter and a community put a smackdown on Urban Outf... by joejohnson on Saturday May 28, 2011 @11:10AM (#2594529)
Of course, all art is derivative in nature. This artist is hypocritical to claim that her idea is entirely unique.
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Re:How Twitter and a community put a smackdown on Urban Outf... by woodall on Saturday May 28, 2011 @12:14PM (#2594661)
I've built a lot of things I thought were "unique" only to find, after I'm done, that they were not.
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Re:How Twitter and a community put a smackdown on Urban Outf... by lardvark on Saturday May 28, 2011 @09:55AM (#2594431)
Exactly.
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