[notatoad]

Layervault emailed the flat UI creator to ask him to take it down, flat UI refused because they didn't believe their work was infringing. Layervault kept pestering the guy, and eventually he gave up and removed a couple of the icons. And then layervault took this cooperation to be an admission of guilt and sent a DMCA takedown notice.

[mratzloff]

And this is the problem with cooperation. There is no "we in tech" between companies; it's a liability.