This past Halloween season, I was alerted by a few people that Spirit Halloween was selling a prop that resembled a scarecrow that I had featured on my blog...one that I had built for the film MR. JONES. I took a look and definitely felt it was a rip-off. The combination of weird long fingers, vintage dress, and an almost out-of-place doll head seemed too much to be a coincidence. So I reached out to Spirit. One of their lawyers responded telling me that he didn't see the similarity and that Spirit purchased the prop from another company. He didn't tell me the name of the company, but I had already been informed by one of the folks who had initially alerted me that the company's name was Tekky Toys. After a couple more emails from me, he simply stopped replying. Their position was clear. They just don't care.
I chose to sit on this and just move forward, as proving something like this legally is very difficult and very expensive. Today I saw the below video from an artist on Instagram and wanted to share her familiar story, and my little experience.
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