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goddamn intellectual property

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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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Written by jebni

February 28th, 2006 at 10:58 am

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5 Responses to 'goddamn intellectual property'

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  1. Time to start the plaintext Battlestar Galactica designs, dude.

    THERE ARE MANY COPIES.

    Joe

    1 Mar 06 at 2:59 am

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

    jean

    1 Mar 06 at 7:48 pm

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

    jebni

    2 Mar 06 at 3:23 pm

  4. 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

    Lian

    10 Mar 06 at 10:09 am

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

    jebni

    10 Mar 06 at 10:51 am