ALIVEEE

How funny that you post about this when Crystal and I were just discussing it (and I see she's also replied to you!).  I think it's inevitable - especially if you are as popular and affluent in the polymer clay community as Becca is.   I think the way she handles it is way classy, and I think the way she addresses things (like people saying she overcharges/auctions/one-of-a-kind/milks-people-for-money etc....that whole hullabaloo recently) is done very well, and humanizes her to her fan-base.  

It's frustrating - but unfortunately the only thing you really can do is grumble about it and keep on keepin' on, if that makes sense.  People that are comfortable snaking other people's work as their own, or directly copying other people's work as their own are a dime a dozen, and it's unlikely they will get very far in their artwork in the long run because they aren't pushing themselves to create new things, which is where their art would grow