Gap Steal

It is always important to not just pull a picture off of the internet and think it is acceptable to use in any situation. Further investigation must be done in order to decipher whether that picture is free game or not. In this situation, there was a picture posted on Flickr of a car and Gap stripped the excess parts to the picture and just put the car on a onesie for a baby. Gap did not seek permission, nor did they do investigation to figure out who's picture it was to put on this onesie to sell. Gap is certainly in copy right infringement because they did not do any investigation, and it was not a image that was free game for anyone to take. Especially for a large company like Gap, researchers and designers should have the knowledge of the copy right laws and should understand what they are. Unfortunately Gap did not seem to care whether they used a image that was owned by someone else. It is also interesting that many other companies have been caught for doing the same. It is sad that people who are getting paid to design clothes are not creative enough to come up with their own designs, or they aren't smart enough to make sure they are not stealing someone else's work when putting it on something they are going to sell in their stores.

Again, it is important to not take other people's designs in the classroom as well. It is important that when we use other's designs, lesson plans, or anything for that matter we make sure that we give credit where credit is due. We also need to teacher our students this principle as well.