Post by wendifful on Sept 14, 2020 16:33:05 GMT
At the beginning of the year, The Stamp Market introduced laminated tabbed dividers for organizing stamps/dies. Today, they made this post on Instagram:
Here's the Scrapbook.com knockoff:
The Stamp Market product versus Scrapbook.com product
As an avid fan of TSM, I immediately noticed the similarity when I was browsing Scrapbook.com recently. While obviously dividers are nothing new, I think the uniqueness of TSM's product lays in two aspects: their signature color palette and the matching labels. I'm not a lawyer but from my understanding of intellectual property, TSM's divider design/concept is not something that can be copyrighted, so while Scrapbook.com might be in the clear legally, it's certainly not a great look for them, especially with the details TSM gave about SB.com's questions at Creativation. The papercrafting community is small and I think this action by SB.com will cause hesitation from smaller vendors to interact with them in the future.
What say the Peas? Will this affect how you view either company or your purchasing habits? For me, although I don't appreciate what SB.com has done, I will still probably make (other, non-divider) purchases there in the future, due to the breadth of products they offer. I also think that after SB.com has sold through their current supply, they should no longer offer the dividers in TSM's colors as an act of respect.
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Here's the Scrapbook.com knockoff:
The Stamp Market product versus Scrapbook.com product
As an avid fan of TSM, I immediately noticed the similarity when I was browsing Scrapbook.com recently. While obviously dividers are nothing new, I think the uniqueness of TSM's product lays in two aspects: their signature color palette and the matching labels. I'm not a lawyer but from my understanding of intellectual property, TSM's divider design/concept is not something that can be copyrighted, so while Scrapbook.com might be in the clear legally, it's certainly not a great look for them, especially with the details TSM gave about SB.com's questions at Creativation. The papercrafting community is small and I think this action by SB.com will cause hesitation from smaller vendors to interact with them in the future.
What say the Peas? Will this affect how you view either company or your purchasing habits? For me, although I don't appreciate what SB.com has done, I will still probably make (other, non-divider) purchases there in the future, due to the breadth of products they offer. I also think that after SB.com has sold through their current supply, they should no longer offer the dividers in TSM's colors as an act of respect.