In December 2008, an artist named Tori LaConsay in East Atlanta painted a local billboard with the simple, loving message, “You Look Nice Today” and painted a small red heart next to it. And this week, the same artist found out that her sign now also adorns doormats, pillowcases and towels at Swedish mega-retailer H&M, which didn’t pay to use her original design in its products.
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When you look at them, it’s pretty easy to see that H&M’s products are near-perfect copies — we suppose for intellectual property reasons they chose to leave out the period that closes LaConsay’s kind sentiment, but otherwise the designs are identical.
And the worst part is, H&M flat-out denies that the items are similar. LaConsay’s friends emailed the company to complain that her artwork had essentially been stolen, and one of them got this message in response:
We employ an independent team of over 100 designers. We can assure you that this design has not been influenced by your work and that no copyright has been infringed.
Obviously the design has been stolen,and sure the giant company such as H&M can not control every possible design and its uniqeness but its really an embarassing moment to deny taking the design when clearly it has been taken.
More to come.
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