Blogger Claims Redbook Ripped Off Her DIY Project

Racked reported that in 2011, blogger Jen Yates (she runs the popular site Cake Wrecks) came up with a great way to store her flip-flops: bending and stretching a wire hanger so it had hooks on the sides for holding the shoes. She posted the instructions on her "geekery and girliness" website Epbot. Her final product became a Pinterest successs with a ton of repins. Awesome, right? Well, not exactly.

Yates, who hadn't watermarked her image, reached out to individual bloggers and asked them to credit and/or link to her. But then Redbook magazine ran a piece that included a remarkably similar flip-flop-hanger image. Yates took to cyberspace to complain.

Yates wrote a post on her website called "Shame On You, Redbook Magazine," comparing images of both her original project and the version in Redbook. Yates has a huge following and was able to get Redbook's attention. They addressed the issue on their Facebook page:

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