New CafePress Shop Owner

Hey there, welcome to the T-Shirt Forums!

Rodney said:

welcome!

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Hello Rodney, and thank you for your welcome.

question.. do you know the terms.. copyright, trademark, lawsuit.. I hope you have a license to place these pictures on tee shirts because they are all owned by companies.

badalou said:

copyright, trademark, lawsuit.. I hope you have a license to place these pictures on tee shirts because they are all owned by companies.

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To which pictures are you refering? If you are talking about the movie posters, they are all in what is called the PUBLIC DOMAIN, and, as thus, allowed to be used in any way you'd like. Plus, I have already spoken to CafePress about it and recieved permission.
Everything else on the site is either FREE clip-art from various CD's I own, or bought onlione from clip-art stores, Photographs taken by myself, OR photographs by my friend Frank Rau, and I have his permission to use them. May I ask exactly which pictures you are refering to?
Oh, and yes, i do know the copyright laws, my brother owns two very succesful, older CafePress shops...

Badalou CafePress is COMPULSIVE about trademark laws to the point of being silly at times (go to the forums there and do a search on "sweet pea" one day to see what I mean) CafePress stores routinely get screened for products that might be trademark violation and NOTHING gets printed without a final check.