Folks, I'm a huge fan of the Harvey Birdman Rule on copyleft-next, and think its philosophy can be applicable to areas way beyond evolving copyleft. I like it so much I tried to create a custom t-shirt with "I <3 the Harvey Birdman Rule" through one of those online t-shirt shops for the upcoming collaboration summit. Unfortunately I was told that the phrase was too general and that Adult Swim could potentially make trademark claims over it. One option is to each out to Adult Swim to ask for explicit permission, but is that worth it? The folks at the shop also told me that they could print my shirt if I change the phrase to replace "I" with some sort of legal group or something... but I want to keep it as is. Any tips?
PS. If anyone wants a t-shirt with this and are attending LF collab summit let me know and I can bulk order and give 'em out at the summit.
Luis
On 02/20/2014 05:06 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
Folks, I'm a huge fan of the Harvey Birdman Rule ,,,
me too!
I don't watch TV so I have no idea the degree to which Adult Swim might have a claim... And I'm basically on the sidelines here (I have never attended LF collab).... Yet it seems like what needs to happen is you need to find some other shop to print the shirt. I suspect that we have entered a "fear of copyright" regime where silliness has replaced rational judgment.
I'd love to see a bunch of lawyers wear these and for someone to *dare* making a claim :)
Regards,
--Tom
On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 8:44 PM, Tom Marble tmarble@info9.net wrote:
I'd love to see a bunch of lawyers wear these and for someone to *dare* making a claim :)
+1
On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 7:24 PM, Pamela Chestek pchestek@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 8:44 PM, Tom Marble tmarble@info9.net wrote:
I'd love to see a bunch of lawyers wear these and for someone to *dare* making a claim :)
+1
I'll find a shop that lets me print as-is then :D. One shop would only let me print 6 minimum so... if anyone is interested in claiming one let me know, I can give them out at LF collab.
Luis
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