Forever 21 (all the way to the right) has totally missed the bird-watching bus!
Adventures in Copyrights: This Bird Has Flown
May 13, 2008 @ 12:03pm
posted by guest
May 13, 2008 12:23PM
Copyright, shmopyright...
We all know the most important thing today is Chuck Bass and that yellow dress Leighton Meister wore last night!!!
posted by guest
May 13, 2008 12:51PM
How the heck do you copyright a flying bird on a tshirt? Ridiculous.
posted by HeatherChandler
May 13, 2008 12:56PM
Well I'm sure the design belongs to whomever published the book Jonthan Livingston Seagull. It's the cover art.
http://www.amazon.com/Jonathan-Livingston-Seagull-Richard-Bach/dp/0380012863
posted by guest
May 13, 2008 1:28PM
to me, an Adventure in Copyrights post always means "don't buy any of these items"
posted by FashionIntelligentsia
May 13, 2008 1:44PM
I had a shirt like this when I was like 7 - do we say OP was the original, no.
posted by guest
May 13, 2008 2:42PM
It's a t-shirt with a seagull. Big whoop. This seems less like blatant copyright infringement; just not that interesting. Plus I think it was posted previously, albeit without the F21 shirt included.
posted by bastylefilegirl
May 13, 2008 3:47PM
Thanks Fashonista for showing that not just "low budget" brands are inspired by other designers. Wow Marc Jacobs was trolling the mall and decides to rework the Hollister Brand Logo? HA!
posted by Faylinn
May 13, 2008 4:18PM
Sorry, but this isn't a copyright infringement by F21. No one is going to look at that shirt and think, "I thought that was a Hollister shirt!" Please, the shirts are just similar and that's it. It seems like Fashionista has a vendetta against Forever 21.
posted by guest
May 13, 2008 4:28PM
I don't care about the copyright so much as the inauthenticity of the Hollister Dockweiler shirt. Too Dockweiler Beach is not in Hawaii or Malibu. But I guess that par for the course for a Cincinatti based "surf" or "California Lifestyle" brand.
posted by guest
May 13, 2008 12:14PM
sorry but the forever 21 shirt doesn't even look close to the other two. companies like hollister and american eagle have been making t-shirts with birds on them for years so it's not even like it's an original idea or anything...