Forever 21 Rips Off Another One

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Whoops. Forever 21 knocked off another design and looks like they've been caught. Atlanta Artist R.Land came up with the character Speckles the Loss Cat, and put the image and some text on T-shirts and posters back in 2001. The shirt was authorized to be featured on Urban Outfitter's website in 2006, but now Forever 21 has gone and tweaked it only slightly and is selling it on their website. On top of that, the text they used is almost a mirror image of the text used on a faux movie poster for Speckles that previously appeared on one of R.Land's Facebook pages. [Mimickers]