It is clear when very young designers take without asking - they are arrogant, stupid and young. They do not know that it is impossible to do this (although this can be allowed to happen with difficulty), they think that “the Internet will not be big, they will not find it”. They are simply poorly educated in legal terms.
But when the famous and the venerable begin to take it without asking, it is time to shrug it off: how, why, why? Malice or mistake?
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There is such a famous designer and fashion designer Masha Tsigal. Design clothes for fashion shows and sometimes handbags for phones.
Actually, such a handbag for her signature
is sold in Euroset for 499 rubles. (
Google , for every fireman)

Signed "Masha Tsigal Anime Girl", we do not invent anything.
But this picture was painted in 2004 by a familiar artist under the nickname
Mistress . The picture was laid out on the website of the author. It was made as a gift to a friend of the artist, was not commercially distributed.

According to the author of the picture, it is known that Ms. Tsigal (if she is the author of the handbag) did not pay for the picture and did not receive any permission for use.
PS The author has publications, witnesses and a huge multi-layered PSD-file (with which she will now go to court). I suggest that you know the procedure to try to predict the outcome of the case :-)
PPS I will note that this post is not an attempt to blame anyone for anything. We do not forget that for this, we will need a court decision that has entered into force, and nothing else.
UPD 1. Yo, the purse was hurriedly removed from the Euroset site!
Unfortunately, sly search engines keep it in their caches:
Yandex |
Google 1 |
Google 2