I was wondering what you guys thought about big name copyright, people seem to think it's ok to steal sanrios intellectual property all the time and make money from it( ie hello kitty)
Whilst perusing easy I found two sellers both selling hello kitty adorned items, but that isn't what bothered me it's that they tried to claim that their designs (incorporating hello kitty) were copyrighted also and that the copyright belongs to them.
I'm sure no court in the land would actually listen if they tried to take anyone to court for stealing their already stolen pieces of work!
I emailed one of the sellers just to say that her ( don't get me wrong very lovely) iPad case was NOT intact copyright to her as sanrio own the copyright to hello kitty, her respond was Its ok everyone does it.
I love hello kitty and do enjoy seeing crafts featuring her I just don't get how anyone can actually be stupid enough to believe that they held any kind of copyright over her.
What do you think? Is it ok for people to steal big companies ideas? We all hate it when its the other way around.
Personally if I were sanrio and I saw someone making hello kitty crafts I'd probably let them off, but if I saw them claiming copyright for something that featured her I would sue them just for them having the audacity to claim such a ludicrous thing!

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