Confession: When I started making my tiles a couple years ago, I saw a tile at a trade show that I thought was pretty, snapped a photo of it, and put it on my business FB page. I captioned it, saw this at the trade show today. Could duplicate if anyone likes it. Because at that point, I didn't have a lot of examples. The owner found out, and was soooo mad at me. She messaged me five times to take the photo down. The first message I got late at night, and heaven forbid I didn't get up right that second and take it down, because by the time the morning rolled around, I had four more increasingly hateful messages. I truly did not think a thing about it! Lesson learned.
Dude. You stole her intellectual property. Of course she was mad. Offering to "duplicate" it was offering to steal her work, even with attribution. You're lucky she just messages you.
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It was just an initial in a pretty font on a floor tile. Nothing special. I honestly didn't think. What else could she have done?
Also, why would you (and why do people) start companies when they don't even have enough examples of their work to take an original picture? This doesn't compute for me.