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A renowned community of quilters is taking on copycats — and winning

The Verge

Online sales gave Gee’s Bend quilters control over their work Quilts made by generations of women in Gee’s Bend, Alabama, have hung in the Met, the Whitney, and the Smithsonian Museum of Art. Occasionally, some of that trickles back in the form of one-off gallery sales, or copyright royalties. Illustration by Claudia Chinyere Akole.

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How Shopify’s network of sellers can take on Amazon

The Verge

Copyright infringement [is] allowed on other platforms. If we see a store that is infringing on any type of intellectual property, either on a trademark or a copyright or anything of that nature, it’s gone. There was just a failed union drive in Alabama , there’s going to be more. We don’t allow it. It’s kind of shocking.

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