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And who's to say that every other item on that site was not made by some sweatshop that churns out crates of knick-knacks?

This is a "featured item" on the front page:

http://www.etsy.com/listing/88946705/tomato-art-print-lovely...

Does the creator need to send documentation of them creating the original? Why not?

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But in that case, the art was an original design (supposedly). They don't need a sweatshop, it's just a run of prints.

What's happening here is more like he made a stencil from someone else's art and says it should count as hand made because he paints each canvas using the stencil and puts it in a generic frame he made.

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