After the firestorm that was the LV DMCA notice, I think a few really good conversations have emerged. Keenan Cummings shared some poignant thoughts, mostly which boiled into some questions about a turning point in the design community towards this idea of Open Source Design.
Say what you will about the impossibilities of those words working together, but I think something interesting is happening here.
I think the confusion over the terms; style, design, copyright, and ownership are causing designers to ask some really important questions about the overlap of style and true problem solving.