Is Urban Outfitters Anti-Cocreative?

While commenting on my post about Johnny Cupcake Karl Long brings this wonderful insight:

That particular design was ripped off by urban outfitters, johnny had sent them some designs and they stole the concepts.(Karl points to a blog, Urban Counterfeiters, with the subtitle of "Bringing American consumers reports from small companies and artists who have been taken advantage of by large corporations. We wish for these corporations to be held accountable for their actions and to change their business practices.")

Very bad form and something they are becoming known for. That's like anti-co-creation.

I like Karl's concept of anti-cocreation in regards to companies appropriating others' ideas. The great thing about the information highway is the bad press that can be created from anti-cocreative actions. It evens the playing field.

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[Thad]

Urban Outfitters appears to be in the process of becoming a huge alien to some of its core customers: Creative people who appreciate art and design. This sentiment mainly appears in blogs but not in any other forums. In this world of ever increasing commonality, is it possible that some of the people who have submitted designs to places like Urban Outfitters could have come up with their "original" ideas after some of the designers who work for Urban Outfitters came up with them independently? We hear about this all the time in the automotive industry. The Art community is really not that different. You have creative people all being influenced by the world around them and surely the creation of similar and even the same images is bound to happen. Is it arrogant to believe that you are the first person to come up with an idea? Probably not, but it is inevitable with the number of creative people in this country that two or three are going to land on the same idea and express it similarly.
And while we are on the subject of Urban Outfitters, I have done some research about this company. They seem to be one of the few retailers out there who push for art and individuality in their stores. In a Business 2.0 article from last march the author says that each store employs at least one display artist whose job it is to create the art that is displayed in the windows and on the walls in each store. The article goes on to say that the company encourages each display artist not to copy the inspiration for the artwork directly but to offer up their intrepretation of it. The author talks about hiring artists from the Philadelphia area to customize shirts, jeans, shoes, and give them signage in each store highlighting who they are and where they are from. That type of behavior does not sound like a company whose sole mission is to steal and rip people off hard working artists to make money. Urban Outfitters is small potatoes in retail in the United States. Gap, Abercrombie, H&M, PACSUN, those are the companies that are huge and all strive to be identical and stifle any creative thoughts in their customers and employees.

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