Copyright for Visual Artists

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Curly leaves, common motifs and twitters

Summary: A designer created an illustration for her new portfolio site and she was unpleasantly surprised to find a very similar image on a famous social networking site.

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Sketch of houseplant


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Photo of plant


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Illustrator vector drawing


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Leaf graphic applied to web page header


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Twitter template graphic


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Screenshots of both graphics


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