Tula Pink has been ripped off by some cheap fabric company. She is OUTRAGED. Go read about it. This is where you realize that stealing an artists work is a bad thing. I know I would be very upset if they stole copies of my paintings and printed them on what is essentially cardboard and sold them in a discount store.
Tula, I feel your pain! I hope you sue and get a HUGE settlement!
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She definitely should sue - but I wonder what happens in cases like- Clinton's Vera Wang wedding dress - which was immediately copied and being sold for a fraction of the original's price. Wonder what those designers do when that happens - and it happens all the time!!!
ReplyDeleteIntellectual property is the hardest thing to defend from forgeries. I hope that she can find some recourse.
ReplyDeleteOh wow...that is not good but Gene, I heard there is alot of that going on around here lately. Not good.
ReplyDeleteI read Tula Pink's post that you linked this morning, went out to run some errands, and found myself walking into the Walmart. As Stampin' Quilter Barb knows, I hate the place and usually avoid it, but I was in the neighborhood and really needed some things. So in I went, but before the greeter even had a chance to greet me, I remembered Tula Pink's post and did a very quick about-face. I marched straight to my car vowing I DO NOT NEED WALMART! I can get everything I need somewhere else, and I will! Walmart doesn't exist for me anymore!
ReplyDeleteThat is horrible but I would think Walmart has no clue where their fabric originates, so they probably don't know it was pirated. (Our Walmarts haven't even had fabric for ages here.) I would think since Tula Pink designs for Moda that Moda would go after whoever has stolen the fabric design???
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