By Lauren Smiley
What if Emily the Strange -- the sullen girl-power icon from
Berkeley-based company Comic Debris who claims her own clothing line, comic
book series, and soon, a motion picture -- isn't all that odd at all? Accusations
are flying around the blogosphere that Emily, whose emo pre-teen angst and message
of non-conformity ("There's nothing more boring to her than copying everyone
else" reads her on-line bio) may be, in the very creation of her dark soul, a
copycat.
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Hmmmm.....The intrigue around Emily the Strange copycat debate has intensified. Last month, the Berkeley-based producers of the international goth hero, whose likeness graces many a T-shirt and comic book, filed a preemptive lawsuit in federal court in San Francisco. The company, Cosmic Debris, asked for injunctive relief against being sued by the creators of the "Nate the Great" 1970s-era children's book series, whose character Rosamond had an uncanny resemblance to Emily the Strange. Read our
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