Not sure if this is the kind of thing I should be discussing here, but I figured one of you guys might be able to help or offer some advice.
I had a range of T-shirts I was selling on redbubble.com and was doin quite well with it, in a little over 2 months I had sold over 30 tees... they had been featured on a couple of blogs getting good views on flickr (over 36,000 in one day!) and were about to be featured in an article in Glamour magazine. So the t-shirts were basically this- ![]() plus a few based on other characters like- ![]() ![]() ![]() There were around 10 in total and, as you can see, a 'Mr Men' take on classic superhero characters. Now, the problem is, the Mr Men people got in touch with the redbubble.com people demanding that they take down all Mr Men based designs. The redbubble people duly obliged. Fair enough. Nobody has come to me demanding I stop creating or selling the designs so should I - Find somewhere else to sell them? Change the design to be less Mr Men but still enough to get the concept across and continue to sell them? Pick a legal fight with them? Move on completely? I did have 'Mr Men' as a meta tag in the design to make them easier to find, maybe that's what they had the problem with? I'm basically here venting, but I'd appreciate any advice anyone may have to offer? Anyone been in a similar situation or read of anything like this that rings a bell? I'm absoloutley gutted, it was turning into a nice little earner, but better that that, it was really cool that there were people out there 'getting' my designs and liking them enough to wear them as a t-shirt.
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