Hot Topic selling rip-off of Threadless design

It is difficult to blame the company on this one. There is no way for them to completely verify every piece of art sold to them from the many freelance artists offering designs. I'm more likely to blame the rip-off artist for claiming the art/design as her own.

Still the company should quickly remove those products from its site and stop paying the artist for the stolen work.

I'm making some pretty good progress on a freelance project this week. I had been stuck on names for a bit, but I think I've managed to work past that. There are still a couple I'm not really happy with, but I can come back to those later.

It also looks like I've found authors for my fiction project. Should be interesting to see how the brainstorming session turns out.

Some new books worth reading:

World of Darkness: Midnight Roads (White Wolf)

Headshot Quartet (Permuted Press)