CondonHouse

Hi all, I need some help. My wife and I are just getting into the T-shirt printing biz. We have a DTG, location, venders picked out and have completing our business plan. Howerever, we ran into a stumbling block. We want to print tattoo flash on shirts, skate boards, golf balls, helmets etc. My question is if we buy the flash from a tattoo supplier can we reproduce the images on anythng other then skin? You would think that you could seeing how you are reproducing the art work on skin would there be a difference. Thanks for the help

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CondonHouse

Ok, I called a few tattoo supply distributors and they said that when you buy the flash you buy the rights to reproduce the art. Still not sure if this is correct or not but coming from the distributors that I called they seemed sure. Is there anyone with this insight that might shed some light on this and point me in the right direction. I don't want to end up in a civil suit because of wrong info. Thank you

 

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Artsplace-CBR

These companies must include this information with the product, I would read there rules &
regulations material before purchasing.

 

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CondonHouse

So if understand correctly I should request from the supplier a copy of their rules and requlations concerning the reproductions of the flash that they sell. Stupid me should have thought of that all along. Thank you ARTSPLACE

 

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PPop

Our company Poster Pop Inc. has published 3 Tattoo Flash Sets with the Licensed art of the the Artists Coop, Alan Forbes and Vince Ray.

Simply put - You ABSOLUTELY HAVE NO RIGHT to reproduce the art in a Tattoo flash Set on any "Merchandise". None. You have Absolutely No Right, unless specifically purchased the rights in writing for specific uses from the Copyright Owner.

Buying a Tattoo Flash set from an artist, putting the Flash set Pages on the walls of a Tattoo Parlour, and selling the design for Tattooing is the normal use of the set.

Artists who publish their art in any form including Flash Sets, T-Shirts, Catalogs, even Magazine Articles ALL have all of their art protected by international Copyright Law. Look it up. there are some major penalties...

I've even been told in our early days that a company was successfully sued by making a T-Shirt Design directly from a photo of a Tattoo in "Tattoo" Magazine.

So the answer is no. Look up copyright Law. BTW, Art done before a certain date 1929 I think are somewhat Public Domain. This might include traditional Tattoo Designs.

There is a good book by NOLO Press, called Getting
Permission, Getting Permission - Law Books, Legal Forms & Software - Nolo

- Poster Pop

Quote: Originally Posted by CondonHouse So if understand correctly I should request from the supplier a copy of their rules and requlations concerning the reproductions of the flash that they sell. Stupid me should have thought of that all along. Thank you ARTSPLACE

 

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SickPuppy

PPop is correct you need to read the license agreement of each art supplier you use including Tattoo Flash. It will depend on the company creating and selling the Tattoo Flash.

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CondonHouse

WOW!!! Good to know guys thank you. The information that I got from the venders was WAY WRONG!!! Apperently they are unaware of the direct usage of their product. I found a site T-Shirt Factory that has exactly what I need concerning tattoo and vector images to make my own designs. If you know of any other venders like the T-Shirt factory I would appreceate it.

Thank you again
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SickPuppy

The Monochrome Art from TshirtClipArt.com and the Corel Draw plugin from advancedtshirts.com are great

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