Lesson 1 – OMG! SOMEONE COPIED ME!!
Welcome to Wry&Ginger’s Lessons on How to Suck It Up in Business.
This is a series of discussions on dealing with some common complaints that we hear when doing business on Etsy. And when I say ‘discussion’ I mean ‘ yes, i would like a backrub, thanks!’
Today we being with a perennial favourite
“OMG SOMEONE IS COPYING ME.”
Here, like everywhere else in the world, some people originate ideas, some take ideas and put a whole new spin on them, and others like to go with a trend and do like the originator or the spinner.
Now I could go in to a lengthy and mind numbingly boring explanation of copyright, trademark and patent law in the USA and other countries, but that would take me forever, and you would just end up disappointed to learn that in the vast VAST majority of cases, there is sweet FA that you can do.
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Many of the posts here will be reprints of posts from the Etsy forums.
I hope they are useful to many Etsy shop owners, but also to small business folk online and in the real world. I do not proclaim to be any sort of expert in business, just marginally endowed with common sense.
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