Lisa Frank copyright claims and takes down an artist’s sticker designs for their small business because they used a cursive font and a rainbow gradient (CW for swear words in images)

I don’t believe being “inspired by” an aesthetic is the same as copying a company’s intellectual property. And this business didn’t even use LF or Lisa Frank in the title or description of these designs. There’s endless artists who make work inspired by unique and distinctive art styles. What about an art exhibition inspired by the work of Andy Warhol containing original pieces? Or a cartoonist on social media redesigning characters to look like a Don Bluth movie? A painter painting a portrait based on Van Gogh’s techniques? Thats inspiration, not copying. They still created those works from scratch with their skill and imagination. And while Lisa Frank Inc. has their specific rainbow gradient colors and logo design copyrighted, this is not the same rainbow color combination, and the font is a completely different cursive from the LF logo. If there was a current market for Lisa Frank cursive rainbow stickers, then maybe that would also be a different conversation. But that’s not a product that has been produced for decades at this point. Instead, anything that uses a rainbow that has been produced in small batches by a fan is being targeted and taken down like this by a large company with money and resources. Marked with spoilers for swear words in the pictures.