Wow check of this store if you want to get rl knock offs

Yes while at the store called Mischief on Illusion I came across some costumes in the store there. I remember seeing these costumes before. They are total rip offs of real life costumes. When designers are worrying about people ripping off there fashions isn't there some sort of rule about ripping off rl stuff?

http://i113.photobucket.com/albums/n233/jemima55/janiemarlowripoff1_003.jpg
http://i113.photobucket.com/albums/n233/jemima55/janiemarlowripoff1_001.jpg

here you can see the pictures i took. the pictures on the right in the pictures are the ones that i found on a website. www.loverslane.com

Urge to make SLcdonalds rising.

Sadly, the women on the Costume website look BETTER than the women who end up buying & wearing them in RL

(my fiance excluded!!!)

DO IT!

XD

It would make new jobs >.>

I'm guessing no, since about 95% of SL's products are direct translations of real life products. People are 'rl stuff' too, ya know.. yet skin designers photosource real people to make their skins

And are you seriously suggesting that people don't photosource ANY of their creations? So, like, all designers really would have to be able to conceptualise and create totally unique outfits from scratch? If they did, the SL clothing market would look a lot more sparse than it does now.

I am stating that if you are going to use an image as inspiration for a clothing item in sl that's fine. But to directly knock off an item and claim it's your design, just makes you look like a thief.

I remember a few months ago designers getting angry because people were stealing there designs. Isn't this the same thing?

Oh and hey i'm all for the sl mcdonalds lol

lol so true Tod. There should be some sort of law that only hot women can buy those outfits lol.

Looks to me like they are directly ripping a design and very clearly NOT claiming it as their own.

coco

Janie Marlow of Mischief makes GREAT clothes. She does not need to quote the source of her inspiration in a note packaged with her cltohes. People have always taken RL clothing and imported it into SL, it is not new. Please do not single out one out of many to persecute here on the forums.

Go play sleuth somewhere else.

Briana Dawson

As long as the Designer / Copyright Owner
of the RL stuff doesnt know / care
its no Problem.

This is worthy of the dumbest thread ever award.

Well this happens in real life too without a lot of fuss. The high street stores copy, sorry are inspired by, the hugely expensive designer labels. The most blatent one in the UK is a company called Primark.

*edit* BTW this isn't an advertising feature for Mischief on Illusion is it?

Why? I would be interested in hearing your points

Peace

indeed, designs are 'ripped off' IRL all the time. don't like seeing SL knock offs, don't buy them. seems a simple enough concept to grasp.

why stop there? why not ban all aesthetically displeasing people from leaving their homes as well. let's confine them to colonies where those 'gorgeous' people don't have to view and be disgusted and therefore traumatized by their (note the spelling of that word, btw) presences. better yet, lets euthanize them all at birth! there we go. problem solved. oh wait, then we also have to impose rigid rules and standards on those we do allow to live...no getting ugly! if you do, we will kidnap you and force plastic surgery upon you. those who refuse or are the victims of botched surgeries...we shall make you into pet food!


can someone please look for my left eyeball? it appears to have disappeared under that table when i rolled my eyes a bit too hard...

Clothing isn't covered by copyright which is why you see such similar styles everywhere in real life. Textile patterns can hold a copyright but not clothing designs. At the most they can be protected with design patents, but just a minor change is generally enough to get around those, and most clothing designs aren't patented. Also, the skill required to do a great knock-off of a real world design in SL is by no means trivial.

Thank you for explaining that to me as i was wondering

Here you go, Circe *hands Circe her left eyeball*. You're lucky I found it before my cat did





Torley Linden:
Closed thread--you are free to ask the maker of those clothes what their inspirations are. However, per forum guidelines:

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