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Originally Posted by Banus
From the tone of Dave's words of caution, sounds like he's speaking from experience ? :P
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I dont have any personal experience, but my sister was thinking of setting up a t-shirt printing business, basically making transfers up on an inkjet printer and ironing them on - figured it was something she could do while at home looking after the kids.
Decided not to do it after she heard a few stories.
You see, you can go out and buy a Mickey Mouse t-shirt transfer kit and use it to make your kids dome t-shirts. If however you make them to sell then the Mouse sends the boys round for copyright and use of a trademark infringement.
So you are stuck with dodging corporate guys who have bigger lawyers than you.
The only way you can get close to using copyrighted material is if its a parody - such as the t-shirts that copy the style of the Coke logo but have different lettering.
But there ARE plenty of cool things you CAN do - especially if you are doing vinyl stickers for bikes etc, just avoid anything that looks like anything that anyone else has done
BTW I am NOT a lawyer so this mainly just an opinion based on anecdotal evidence, but hey, where would the internet be if people only posted cold, hard, facts
David