REPOST for Lyxzen
Urban Outfitters ripped off one of my shirts and is now selling it in some of their stores.
They have a shirt with a jet dropping cupcakes(with a different color scheme),. Last year Urban wanted to carry my shirts & they had a few Johnny Cupcakes shirt samples I had sent them....the Jet dropping cupcakes being one of them. They never sent my samples back after I told them I didn't want to buisness with them.
A friend of mine that works in an Urban Outfitters e-mailed me today, telling me that she thought they got Johnny Cupcakes shirts in.... except they had an "Urban Renewal" tag on the inside of em -which is Urban Outfitters notorious clothing line that rips off small, independent artists & designers from all around the world.
I am talking to a few lawyers next week to see if there's anything I can do. They may of changed the design around enough so that they can't get in trouble. Major bummer.
If you google "Urban Outfitters" and "Infringement" - you will find a couple hundred court cases about Urban Outfitters fucking over young/small designers & clothing lines. Urban outfitters makes 856 Miliion dollars a year. They put small shops out of business. They're the Walmart of clothing stores.
Below you will see the Red Jet t-shirt dropping cupcakes that I originally sent to them, as a sample, before I decided to keep my shirts out of Urban Outfitters. They KEPT my sample shirts, copied one of them so far, and is now mass producing them with their 'Urban Renewal' company name on the inside(the various webcam pics towards the bottom). [ note: this was reposted &didnt have the pictures mentioned, and they are no longer on johnny cupcakes main page, but trust me, they completely snagged his design. ]
HOW CAN YOU HELP?
-Re-post this, spread the word, tell as many people as you can. This type of thing with Urban
Outfitters ripping off smaller brands, has happened ALL the time! Well, thanks to TOM - we all now have MYSPACE and can communicate.
-Stop shopping at Urban Outfitters, there are plenty of other independent shops & online stores.
-And you can purchase shirts from http://www.johnnycupcakes.com
thank you so much for your time, start spreading the news!
love,
Johnny Cupcakes
Urban Outfitters ripped off one of my shirts and is now selling it in some of their stores.
They have a shirt with a jet dropping cupcakes(with a different color scheme),. Last year Urban wanted to carry my shirts & they had a few Johnny Cupcakes shirt samples I had sent them....the Jet dropping cupcakes being one of them. They never sent my samples back after I told them I didn't want to buisness with them.
A friend of mine that works in an Urban Outfitters e-mailed me today, telling me that she thought they got Johnny Cupcakes shirts in.... except they had an "Urban Renewal" tag on the inside of em -which is Urban Outfitters notorious clothing line that rips off small, independent artists & designers from all around the world.
I am talking to a few lawyers next week to see if there's anything I can do. They may of changed the design around enough so that they can't get in trouble. Major bummer.
If you google "Urban Outfitters" and "Infringement" - you will find a couple hundred court cases about Urban Outfitters fucking over young/small designers & clothing lines. Urban outfitters makes 856 Miliion dollars a year. They put small shops out of business. They're the Walmart of clothing stores.
Below you will see the Red Jet t-shirt dropping cupcakes that I originally sent to them, as a sample, before I decided to keep my shirts out of Urban Outfitters. They KEPT my sample shirts, copied one of them so far, and is now mass producing them with their 'Urban Renewal' company name on the inside(the various webcam pics towards the bottom). [ note: this was reposted &didnt have the pictures mentioned, and they are no longer on johnny cupcakes main page, but trust me, they completely snagged his design. ]
HOW CAN YOU HELP?
-Re-post this, spread the word, tell as many people as you can. This type of thing with Urban
Outfitters ripping off smaller brands, has happened ALL the time! Well, thanks to TOM - we all now have MYSPACE and can communicate.
-Stop shopping at Urban Outfitters, there are plenty of other independent shops & online stores.
-And you can purchase shirts from http://www.johnnycupcakes.com
thank you so much for your time, start spreading the news!
love,
Johnny Cupcakes
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it happened to a friend of mine as well,he`s a photographer,and one day he goes to italy and sees t-shirts with one of his pics on them,(i even was the stylist on this shoot),so he sued,but it looks like this will take forever.we always joke that we might get rich when he finally wins the case...well,i don`t think so...
anyways,thanx for your sweet comment!