What he said is that he is "the exclusive rights holder for the artwork containe...

mnicole · on March 6, 2013

TIL solid colors constitute artwork now. Please excuse me, I've got some baseless, reputation-damaging takedown notices to file. Maybe next they can go after everyone that participated in http://dribbble.com/shots/911303-Designer-News-App-Icon-Play...

malandrew · on March 6, 2013

Yup, like T-Mobile, who owns the trademark on Magenta in Europe.

arrrg · on March 6, 2013

Trademark, exactly. Not copyright.

sergiotapia · on March 6, 2013

_BUT_ as mentioned in the Github thread, FlatUI framework does NOT use any artwork from LayerVault.

All of their assets were created in-house by DesginModo's designers..

drharris · on March 6, 2013

Well, that remains to be seen. Looking at both websites, it's difficult to tell what they are talking about. Flat-UI doesn't seem to have any assets that mirror anything on LayerVault's. They need to be more specific.

tobyjsullivan · on March 6, 2013

> Flat-UI doesn't seem to have any assets that mirror anything on LayerVault's.

I would say that is the issue in a nutshell. LayerVault is claiming they are the exclusive rights-holders, yet absolutely nothing in Flat-UI is the same as anything on LayerVault's public site.

The only possible angle remaining would be if LayerVault had a bunch of these elements behind their paywall... something tells me that's not the case.

Edit: Alright, I admit the colour Turquoise is used on both pages. Still, I'm fairly confident turquoise boxes (of differing shapes!) are not copyrightable.