All you need is LOVE fabric: Vote for Fabric Of the Week, Valentine’s Day Edition

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1. Stephen says

   February 11, 2010 at 2:06 pm

   This is a friendly note to let folks know that we just unpublished a comment here that made a vague accusation about some contest designs. For the record, when and if copyrighted content appears on Spoonflower — which sometimes happens — we DO want to know about it. But the appropriate way to let us know is to send an email to help@spoonflower with a link to the specific content you suspect of infringement and specific information on the work you feel has been infringed. That will allow us to put together the objective information necessary to make a decision. Publicly posting something like “I’m sure I’ve seen that somewhere before” may seem natural, but it is not helpful or fair to the designer you are impugning. I believe the positive spirit of our community is best preserved by taking a cooperative and friendly approach to the enforcement of rules rather than an accusatory one. I hope that makes sense!

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2. anonnie_muss says

   February 11, 2010 at 3:51 pm

   It was my comment that was unpublished and I can’t understand why Spoonflower would think anyone is obligated to be “helpful or fair” to a “designer” who is using someone else’s designs. That’s pretty backwards. And if the “designer” sees fit to upload a design and publicly take credit for it, then they ought to anticipate that someone might point out that their design is not original. It is truly a twisted idea of “positive spirit” to think that people ought to be able to steal well-known images without any fear of being publicly caught at it. Or that they need to be shielded from embarrassment with a “helpful” and “friendly” nudge in private so that everyone can go on pretending it never happened. More importantly, it is not reasonable to state that anything goes on your site, even if the design in question is a very familiar one, unless and until someone submits proof of infringement to you – you are hosting this process and printing and selling these fabrics and you need to take responsibility for it. I am wondering now if you have even the most basic understanding of how copyright law works. It’s not ok to just host and sell infringing designs and say that you were waiting for someone else to notify you and provide proof of infringing material. You need to take a more proactive role than that. Whether you want to or not, and whether you think it’s fair or not, or “friendly” or not, that is how the law works.

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3. Annelie Hervi says

   February 11, 2010 at 5:47 pm

   So let’s say you see a design on here that you THINK you have seen before. It looks familiar, or even almost the same as some other design online. At this point, unless you are willing to be taking some legal action, is it not smart to first [as per Spoonflower’s suggestion] give the designer the benefit of doubt? What if they really did come up with a similar design to something that existed, and had no idea??
   Of COURSE the responsibility to not print or use copyrighted material is still with the designer/Spoonflower – but even IF you are 100% sure, why post it here instead of sending Spoonflower an email??
   The satisfaction of finding fault with others does not have to be so great as to point out their mistakes to the entire community – unless there is ANY benefit to the outcome.
   In the past when a user entered someone else’s design in a contest, Spoonflower DID make it known – in time and with respect for all – to all users. I don’t think we have to worry about them trying to bypass copyright laws.

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4. Chocomog2006 says

   February 13, 2010 at 10:35 pm

   My fabric (Happytines by Anna Cole/ parklanegirl) is showing up as a red “x” instead of a picture of the fabric! Is this because I was exhausted and got the application for this contest wrong? Any way to fix it so that it shows up when people are voting?

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