While blatant rip-offs of ideas are a bummer, there is a post just a couple below this about someone selling knitting plans for "Batgirl gloves" on etsy. Nobody seems to have beef with that. (Including me, for the record.)

The difference, I suppose, is that one scenario seems evil and rip-offy, and one seems cool and homage-y, but at their heart, aren't they both someone making some dollars off someone else's idea albeit on different economic scales?

I entered the contest. (And did not win.)

I'm a professional freelance artist, it's how I make my living. I like to be paid for my work.

Entering a fun silly contest that plays with one of America's classic (if not culturally popular) icons was enjoyable, and was a diversion well worth the hour my entry took.

Conde Nast can have the rights to my entry, I made it just for them, featuring their mascot.

I respect the whole copyfight movement, but equating this with fascism or Burgess-esque dystopianism is really stretching the issue.

Sometimes a fun no-prize havin' contest is just a fun no-prize havin' contest. I think you'll find most everyone who entered, win or lose, had fun drawing and got a kick out of being in the Flickr group.

Standing outside all of it fuming and raging with indignance at the terms of entering may be righteously indignant, but I bet it's not much fun.

Besides, I have plenty of actual injustice to be indignant about.