Oh well, CafePress just pulled most of my merchandise at the Antipopper Store for potential copyright infringement. It’s not really a surprise — I’ve been waiting this to happen ever since I turned Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely’s “Magneto Was Right” t-shirt into reality, which was naughty, yes, but too cool to pass up. The rest of the stuff was all collage and parody, though, which irks me — I mean, a picture of George Bush with a faux-Flickr logo modified to read “FUCKR” isn’t exactly an attempt to made unauthorised Flickr merchandise, is it? Oh well.
[ tags: cafepress, intellectual-property, fair-use, copyright ]
Time to start the plaintext Battlestar Galactica designs, dude.
THERE ARE MANY COPIES.
hmmm…presumably this is under US law, so parody is a defense? although you’re not really parodying flickr…or are you?
Well, I’m not exactly parodying Flickr itself, so it’s very hazy.
I want to steal your magneto was right logo for my band, we’re called……….ta daaaaa! MAGNETO, we want to make a buttload of buttons. Hey how does this work? Do I just go for it? Would you get angry? Would the XMEN get angry? By the way, our band kicks ass, listen: myspace.com/magneto
It makes no difference to me, since I ripped it off Marvel…