Search sonic on Redbubble and you'll get a huge amount of stuff for sale. Search pokemon and you'll get 30x more results. Look at sites like shirt.woot and teefury, who have copyrighted characters on there shirts everyday.
Those people either have express permission from the copyright holder, or their works fall under fair use, or they've just been lucky that the copyright holder hasn't noticed and/or chose not to sue them.
One would have a tough time arguing fair use of this image in court since it's for-profit, doesn't deviate from the original significantly, nor could be considered parody or satire.
Sega lawyers probably have bigger fish to fry so you may fly under the radar here but don't be surprised if Redbubble pulls your shirt one day.
Well then, thanks for the information. I've always been a little worried about copy rights but i just blew it off because of the amount of other copyright infringing material out there.
You're welcome. The good news is that if anybody did get sued, it would be Redbubble, not you. Also, if there was a classic Sonic version of this tee I'd buy it up. Hint-hint.
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I think Sega might have a problem with this.
Search sonic on Redbubble and you'll get a huge amount of stuff for sale. Search pokemon and you'll get 30x more results. Look at sites like shirt.woot and teefury, who have copyrighted characters on there shirts everyday.
Those people either have express permission from the copyright holder, or their works fall under fair use, or they've just been lucky that the copyright holder hasn't noticed and/or chose not to sue them.
One would have a tough time arguing fair use of this image in court since it's for-profit, doesn't deviate from the original significantly, nor could be considered parody or satire.
Sega lawyers probably have bigger fish to fry so you may fly under the radar here but don't be surprised if Redbubble pulls your shirt one day.
Well then, thanks for the information. I've always been a little worried about copy rights but i just blew it off because of the amount of other copyright infringing material out there.
Also that wasn't very lazy at all.
You're welcome. The good news is that if anybody did get sued, it would be Redbubble, not you. Also, if there was a classic Sonic version of this tee I'd buy it up. Hint-hint.