It is Possible to Knock Off a News Story?

Well the writers at Women's Wear Daily definitely do not view imitation as the sincerest form of flattery. Women's Wear Daily did a story on what they think that Michelle Obama will be wearing to her husband's inauguration and ball. Women's Wear Daily did go straight to the designers and the designers provided actual sketches of designs (complete with a willowy looking Michelle Obama). Their sketches appeared in the news story like the picture above (left).

US Weekly seems to have lifted these very sketches for their own version of the same news story. WWD fought back with their own article that can be read here:

http://www.wwd.com/media-news/fashion-memopad/is-it-real-or-is-it-memorex-ami-extends-again-1895968?justin=1895968#/article/media-news/fashion-memopad/is-it-real-or-is-it-memorex-ami-extends-again-1895968?full=true

Since the sketches were voluntarily given by the designers to both news outlets, there is no foul play in the legal sense. WWD admitted this, but still pointed out that it seemed unethical in their eyes. Meow!