CharlesHouse
Active Member
This is from Facebook. I will paraphrase, as I can't access it at work. Link here.
The cosplayer based the design on the Suicide Squad jacket, but for personal reasons, and because the stills released aren't high resolution, she made her own alterations making it fairly different from the screen used item and using wording not in the piece worn by Robbie. Cosplay Sky apparently endorses the cosplayer. They contacted her and asked her for information, images and wording, used in her design. She ignored it, as it seemed questionable. She then found they were selling a jacket that used her design copied word for word. The difference was they screenprinted and she did hers herself, meaning theirs is cleaner but less defined. She contacted them and they did not respond.
She posted about it, it was seen by more than 50k people, and Cosplay Sky contacted her, claiming it was a mistake and they will remove the jacket from their site.
She has no intellectual property rights to the original design, but that does not mean what Cosplay Sky chose to sell is reasonable or fair. She may also have rights due to how much she changed the design. I mention this because it was a common discussion on her post and others.
I bring it up so others will know to be careful and to possibly avoid this company, which many beginners use for their costumes. Pictures of the jackets added.
The cosplayer based the design on the Suicide Squad jacket, but for personal reasons, and because the stills released aren't high resolution, she made her own alterations making it fairly different from the screen used item and using wording not in the piece worn by Robbie. Cosplay Sky apparently endorses the cosplayer. They contacted her and asked her for information, images and wording, used in her design. She ignored it, as it seemed questionable. She then found they were selling a jacket that used her design copied word for word. The difference was they screenprinted and she did hers herself, meaning theirs is cleaner but less defined. She contacted them and they did not respond.
She posted about it, it was seen by more than 50k people, and Cosplay Sky contacted her, claiming it was a mistake and they will remove the jacket from their site.
She has no intellectual property rights to the original design, but that does not mean what Cosplay Sky chose to sell is reasonable or fair. She may also have rights due to how much she changed the design. I mention this because it was a common discussion on her post and others.
I bring it up so others will know to be careful and to possibly avoid this company, which many beginners use for their costumes. Pictures of the jackets added.