goddamn intellectual property

2006 February 28
by jebni

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.

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5 Responses
  1. Joe permalink
    March 1, 2006

    Time to start the plaintext Battlestar Galactica designs, dude.

    THERE ARE MANY COPIES.

  2. jean permalink
    March 1, 2006

    hmmm…presumably this is under US law, so parody is a defense? although you’re not really parodying flickr…or are you?

  3. jebni permalink
    March 2, 2006

    Well, I’m not exactly parodying Flickr itself, so it’s very hazy.

  4. Lian permalink
    March 10, 2006

    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

  5. jebni permalink
    March 10, 2006

    It makes no difference to me, since I ripped it off Marvel…

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