(Image taken from telegraph.co.uk)

An artist known as Hidden Eloise created the original work on the left - Paperchase was caught distributing products displaying the design on the right. This is a slightly harder to identify case of plagiarism - though that does not necessarily make it very difficult.

The similarities between the style and design are too many to ignore - from the looks of things, the image has been traced and slightly altered to create the piece on the right. Originally, though absurd as it sounds, the design company affiliated with Paperchase and this blatant rip off (Gather No Moss) denied any plagiarism at all initially.

Soon after this incident, Neil Gaman (a scifi author) posted about it on Twitter which caused the whole thing to blow up and rendered Paperchase unable to deny it any longer - a formal apology was issued to their customers and Hidden Eloise.

It can be argued that this is not enough, as the fiasco went on long after it was originally noticed, the multi-million pound company had initially ignored the artist's concerns, making a substantial amount of money before the design was officially revoked.

Read the articles here:
The Telegraph: http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/01576/Paperchase-460_1576762c.jpg
Bitterwallet: http://www.bitterwallet.com/paperchase-finally-say-sorry-for-stealing/25814