Teespring and copyright/legal issues ?? (6)
Hello,
I'm not new to affiliate marketing but my background is adult in France with organic trafic that is making me a living. I recently joined and I did not run any paid campaign so far. I'm here to learn, make mistakes and bank at the end.
Teespring stuff seems interesting for a newbie in paid campaigns.
I dit not find much information on copyright issues before starting.
Example of my wondering :
- copyrighted characters :
Some quotes are easily recognizable, can I use something like "I am your father Luke" in some t-shirt ?
or
What about fan art ? Can I make a t shirt like this ? If I draw the vador head myself ?
- about people :
Some people are really famous and have lots of fans.
Do I have the right to sell something like "Messi is God" or "I believe in Leo Messi".
Is it different as long as it is text only or drawing or picture ?
If the reference is negative? example : "Miley Cyrus is a bitch" or "I hate Miley" or "I wish Justin was dead".
I guess this is really a newbie question but i prefer not to make a legal mistake...
Thanks for answers and if you want to give me some teespring advice on skype or MP, I'm ready to listen !
https://teespring.com/policies/ip
In short, and plain english.
If you make a shirt, and it's trademarked the quote, or the words or the images - in most cases their tool will automatically suspend your campaign.
In worse, it will be suspended later.
But if its a winning shirt, and you get hit for copyright there's work arounds as usual. As with taxes, where you hire a tax advisor and pay a consulting fee, on teespring when you face that kind of issue, you can hire a consultant/advisor as well to learn the best workarounds.
All in all, we go for volume and don't really care much about if t-shirts get dinged removed - the truth is they can't trademark and copy right every single phrase, word, picture in the world.
thanks guys.
Just found that : https://www.spreadshirt.com/darth+vader+t-shirts
i really wonder if Disney allowed this and also if they're getting royalties on this...
Teespring is really hard with copyright issues. Try Teezily, teechip or viralstyle instead.
But it's still not legal. It's up to you to risk it, or not.
Anything to do with Star Wars will probably get axed. You can't even buy stock photos of Darth Vader. Pictures of fans at Comic Con dressed as Darth Vader are even listed as for editorial use only. Fiercely protected...
I would suggest changing your approach. Have the shirt not infringe and bring the context/relevance to the ads themselves where you are more flexible and less likely to have revenues or sales revoked.
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