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araneae on May 28, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: How Twitter and a community put a smackdown on Urb...

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/

joejohnson on May 28, 2011 | [–]

Of course, all art is derivative in nature. This artist is hypocritical to claim that her idea is entirely unique.

woodall on May 28, 2011 | | [–]

I've built a lot of things I thought were "unique" only to find, after I'm done, that they were not.

lardvark on May 28, 2011 | [–]

Exactly.

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