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Doktag aka is a 25.21 year old boy, has been a member since August 17, 2006, has scored 121 submissions, giving an average score of 2.60, helping 4 designs get printed.

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Aug 21 '06 by Doktag
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Australian Store Stole A Threadless Design

about For The Birds

The other day I was in a shopping centre and came across a design in one of the display windows of a popular Australian clothing chain that looks like an exact copy of the "For The Birds" t-shirt.

As active and loving participant of this great community, I feel it is my duty to let this sham be known.

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Sportsgirl Stole A Threadless Design

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bananaphone on Aug 21 '06 at 10:43am

It's kind of annoying that you are using this just to plug your blog.

She Says So on Aug 21 '06 at 10:44am

who fucking cares....i cant believe you wrote a whole article about it on your blog.

MoniqueH on Aug 21 '06 at 10:45am

It's because it's a Travis design. Everyone loves Travis.

mlloyd on Aug 21 '06 at 10:45am

I'd be pi$$ed if it was my design!!!

bananaphone on Aug 21 '06 at 10:46am

sportsgirl huh, why does that not surprise me.

Doktag on Aug 21 '06 at 10:47am

It's not about plugging my own blog. I gave a basic outline of what happened, and gave people the option to go to the article I wrote for the full story.

The article I wrote was quite big, so I wasn't going to bore people by pasting the whole thing here.

bananaphone on Aug 21 '06 at 10:48am

well they dont have to read the blog either, but whatever.

MoniqueH on Aug 21 '06 at 10:50am

He doesn't even link to his stp link so I don't care.

Doktag on Aug 21 '06 at 10:51am

@bananaphone

Exactly, which is why I gave them the link. The option is there.

What is wrong with promoting a story that you wrote that you think other people might find interesting? I'm not asking you to become avid readers of my blog and sign up as members. You click the link if you want to, you read the article if you want to.

lemonalle on Aug 21 '06 at 10:52am

That's pretty crappy.

MoniqueH on Aug 21 '06 at 10:54am

The apple reminds me of Crowded Teeth clothing

Doktag on Aug 21 '06 at 10:56am

The most ironic part was when the girl working the register came out and told me, �I know it looks really pretty, but I can�t allow you to take photos of it. It�s actually illegal.�

bananaphone on Aug 21 '06 at 10:56am

yeah that apple is very familiar.

AsStarsGoOut on Aug 21 '06 at 10:57am

no need to get so dramatic about it. . .

okay did you design For the Birds?

no.

then who cares.

MoniqueH on Aug 21 '06 at 10:58am

"Men are More Romantic than Women"

Doktag on Aug 21 '06 at 11:00am

@AsStarsGoOut

Wow... you're the embodiment of that strong Threadless community spirit I was talking about in the article!

MoniqueH on Aug 21 '06 at 11:03am

^ woops there was an lol after that. I keep forgetting arrows don't work on Threadless. I can't decide if women are more romantic or men even after reading that.

little g on Aug 21 '06 at 11:03am

They should pay travis royalties. He owns the copyright to the image.

ResonantFish on Aug 21 '06 at 11:03am

The best thing to do is contact Threadless directly.

whisper in water on Aug 21 '06 at 11:05am

Wow, that's not cool. If Sportsgirl had this image first and then somebody submitted it on Threadless, everyone would get so angry and say things like "STOLEN! ZERO! COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT IS NOT COOL!"

And they'd be right.

MoniqueH on Aug 21 '06 at 11:05am

I think it's men after college and women during and before college.

whisper in water on Aug 21 '06 at 11:06am

... Maybe I don't make sense... ?

Easy Jack on Aug 21 '06 at 11:06am

AsStarsGoOut: Seriously, snide remarks like that are unnecessary.

I guarantee you if it was a more frequent Threadless member that posted this (let's say, for little g for example) people would be like, "OMG Good find!"

Seriously, this is the first time I've seen a blogger get snapped at for making a blog about finding a jacked design. Every other time it was "good work" and high-fives all around.

lemonalle on Aug 21 '06 at 11:07am

Too true

Doktag on Aug 21 '06 at 11:08am

@ResonantFish

I actually already did before I posted this, but thatnks anyway. :)

I only posted it because I thought SOME people might find it interesting and create discussion, but all it's seemed to have done was make me the target of a one-way flame war.

MoniqueH on Aug 21 '06 at 11:09am

^Agreed

MoniqueH on Aug 21 '06 at 11:15am

"From Sandstorming to Nestl�"

Wow, it really does pay off to make a big deal about everything!

I bet I'm really annoying you. :P

Doktag on Aug 21 '06 at 11:22am

@MoniqueH

Haha, :P

Put it this way: I suck at drawing, so I write. That's why you won't see many design submissions from me. And at least it means you're actually reading other stuff on the website :P

chelly on Aug 21 '06 at 11:36am

interesting. i think whoever did that didn't think that threadless was a very big company. that, or, they are planning on selling threadless shirts soon...

chelly on Aug 21 '06 at 11:37am

^oops, you touched on that later.

the differences are so small b/w the birds.

dpj.deli on Aug 21 '06 at 11:40am

thats pretty cheeky. And that I heart new york sticker looks exceedingly like the honest tee design! The rascals! :-)

Doktag on Aug 21 '06 at 11:43am

@chelly

Yeah, and the flash on the camera actually made the colour on the birds a bit lighter.

My friend compared For The Birds to the "kissing birds" picture on the Sportsgirl website, and said the colours were identical within 1 hex value.

Larlar on Aug 21 '06 at 11:44am

The next course of action is clear. Molotov Cocktails at twenty paces.

3 days later

Doktag on Aug 25 '06 at 1:01am

A lot of people replied with "who cares" to this blog. I'd just like to let you know that Threadless cares (you know, that site that you buy those t-shirts off?) - they sent me a $5 coupon for spotting this and letting them know.

angelito on Aug 25 '06 at 1:10am

Dude good spotting. It's not right for people's designs to get ripped off, and good on you for speaking up about it. I don't get why people are giving you shit.

Anyway...

Jenna Lupey on Aug 25 '06 at 1:10am

wow that really sucks because that's such a rip off and i do care because i have that shirt, and i really love threadless.

in fact i'm wearing it right now.

timrb on Aug 25 '06 at 2:31am

Yeah, I don't know why you're getting flak about this. Good spot. And it pretty clearly looks like a rip-off to me, since there ARE minor differences (see the lines on the birds' wings). If it were legit, they would just have used original design.

dale.n on Aug 25 '06 at 3:13am

glad to see another brisbane person - we're growing! muwahahaaa...

and sportsgirl is a slut. design stealerers

eskimokiss on Aug 25 '06 at 5:19am

My take on what may have happened (based on what has happened in the past to designiskinky.net):

A designer had a deadline. needed to fulfill a brief. was rushed for time. scoured the net(or was already aware of threadless and may even be a blogger/submitter). and thought "no one in oz would recognise this.. fuck it..i'll change it ever so slightly"

This happened to designiskinky.net about 2 years ago. Jay Jays Jeans Warehouse were selling a tee with the sammy the squirel logo on it. Someone even tracked down the designer and they admitted to being rushed to get the design in on time and thought nobody would notice.

serenityoz on Aug 25 '06 at 7:55am

Thanks for posting about this.

I dont know why people dont care as much about this compared to other thefts of threadless designs, or by other threadless users in the past.

And I think it could be possible to come up with the same idea, but not the same colors as well. So theft.

15 days later

fuji check on Sep 10 '06 at 2:02am

I KNEW THAT WAS FAMILIAR. haha, i'd love to wear the "for the birds" t-shirts and and stroll into Sportsgirl all smug, but i'm guilty of owning a Sportsgirl vest. :x

and the i♥ny thing as well? err.. could you say "honest tee"?

yeohgh on Sep 10 '06 at 6:44am

1 words!! SHOCKING!

d3d on Sep 10 '06 at 7:17am

eskimokiss describes those circumstances a little too well. so how much did sportsgirl pay you for that design paz?

it's not just a decal they bought from blik or something is it?

SicK PuPPy on Sep 10 '06 at 7:23am

cant believe people say "who cares"!!! If you dont care go somewhere else! What if that was your design that you had worked very hard on as most designers do?

OlliRudi on Sep 10 '06 at 7:36am

crikey!

bananaphone on Sep 10 '06 at 7:37am

bloody oath.

electronically on Sep 11 '06 at 2:55pm

It is interesting, I don't know why so many people are being such douchebags.

MarcieD on Sep 11 '06 at 3:02pm

ohh i thought it was on a shirt...that was a waste of my time.

Kerig on Sep 11 '06 at 3:46pm

Definitely a good find, OP. I'm curious to know what Threadless plans on doing about it now.

I'm thinking at the least a cease & desist letter should be sent to that store chain, unless Threadless wants to strike a deal with them, which would be ideal but might involve a bit of legal work first (including proving copyright infringement).

farleyisgod on Sep 11 '06 at 3:49pm

ohh i thought it was on a shirt...that was a waste of my time.

how will you ever get that five minutes back

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