Uhm.



Not Super Mario, Regular Mario.

It's done in parody so it's legal but cannot be copyrighted.

watch them start whining about parodies, and it has been noted that his is a pixel perfect rip

*this

Oh and Happy Birthday to you!

see, parodies



beat me to it

uh, dude, it is called "super mario bros"

*sigh* Please...not again. Read through the blogs before you start your own. This argument is still on the main page.



What a day...

No, it's Super Mario Bros. The only non-super Mario game was "Mario Bros." and that was just that place where you fought against Luigi in the tubes to get 3 coins the fastest. There was the POW block in the middle...



Savvy?

just look at andy warhol or any other pop artist

there selling their paintings for thousands upon thousands of dollars

To say it's pixel perfect would be giving me to much credit. I did try my best to get it just like a mario pipe :)

Then there was Super Mario Bros. 2, which was just a ripoff of Doki Doki Panic. Now that was a strange game, what with vegetables and all.

Someone should do something with BURGER TIME!

just set up a grid in illustrator, import the pixel graphic and snap away, row by row.



It can be arduous, but it's a good way to get a perfect vector out of any old school pixel graphic



there's also more automated processes, but i don't feel like typing them out

you're like 10 days late, and like $15 short



parodys are not subject to copyright laws



nintendo doesn't give a shit



threadless is smart enough to know when and when not to print an obviously pre-used material, as long as they're aware of its prior usage.



Next time save blogspace and look at the design's blogs, previous to writing this one.

if you had anything better to do, you wouldn't have commented to this blog.



i'm not forcing you to read or comment to a blog i post. so put a sock in it. i'll do as i please.



and littleg.. THANK YOU!!! :)

whether parodies are legal is irrelevant to the issue of appropriation as an ethical debate



I vote yes to appropriation

and no to parodies as an convenient excuse for appropriation



if appropriation is right, context is irrelevant

none of my other subs are parodies. All the art on my website is mine. I am a legit artist with a long background in fine art, graphic design and publishing. I don't want to be judged in this way. Let's be fair here Spires. Why wont you let my shirt live in peace?

the words "no shit!" come to mind

spries..it's not appropriation because the reader understands the context is not from the origianl creator......

i don't care either way. i like the shirt. and i'd like to do some parodies myself. :D

appropriation would imply some sort of deception to the viewer

dude... spires, loved disco, but give it a fucking rest



if your mario design had been printed your mouth would be shut and you wouldn't be saying one damn word. let her enjoy her fucking $2g's and get over yourself.



you've been here less than 3 months, you don't know about "that system"



and discord, any half-wit can do as they please, but someone of intelligence knows when and when not to as to avoid ignorance on their part.

Hahaha, lemonalle, I still own that game for the NES.

The length of time a person has been a member doesn't have bearing on the validity of their opinion.

none of you answered my points, just name called



and none of my last comments were comments about this design or Genee or Threadless, but comments about the law/legal system



so, read my posts before you respond, it may help



and Verdana is right, senority matters nothing here

i couldn't care any less



senority however helps when trying to state your case. at this point no one is really taking you seriously.

There are a lot of things out there that use appropriation as a base. Do you have issue with Mezo? Her Fast Supper is a parody that appropriates logos of many fast food chains. I personally love it and have requested a reprint of it. Why are you focusing so much energy on me?

because, as stated, his mario design wasn't printed

these blogs are fucking hilarious! these people must be 8 years old

well you have to be about 8 to want to kick and scream and carry on, even after you've been shut down several times prior, in other blogs of the same subject. Its over kids, you lose, Genee' wins. Now bugger off.

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k too many commas..

NO. I support appropriation.



I don't support arbitrary legal categories, like parody.



I think what you have done with this design is fine, I have no problem with it. I just didn't like that you were complaining that someone else may have taken the idea from you, when your whole piece is based on appropriation. There is no distinction, other than some silly legal category.



That's my position.



UberRyan, I've never taken you seriously, but there's nothing wrong with that :)



Cheerlead onward!

well its the shear fact that her design is a result of combining two sources, this person on a cafepress basically took that result and 86'd the damn man-eating flower



kept the positioning, the pipe, the spacing, shirt color, everything



that in any case is just cause to make a scene over. If I took your mario design, and maybe got rid of some random part of it, and posted it for sale on cafepress to turn a profit, you'd be pretty pissed too, wouldn't you? Right or wrong.

What the fool are you talking about Spires?



"just set up a grid in illustrator, import the pixel graphic and snap away, row by row.It can be arduous, but it's a good way to get a perfect vector out of any old school pixel graphic"



4 second method: Live trace, 1 pxel fittin, 0 blur, enlarge.

I never complained that someone else had the same idea as me James! Where did you read that? What I complained about was that someone accused me of ripping off that very person which I did not. My integrity was at stake. You would have done the same. Anyone would have. Thats why I posted my blog in the first place! I also said that the person who did the same shirt could have come up with the idea on his or her own. I gave them the benifit of the doubt. Please, can we just stop with this hole thing?! I am not about mud slinging or bashing. Like it or don't like it but show me some respect please. I never did anything to hurt anyone....

Kojima, I wish I had live trace!



Ryan, if I had never submitted my Mario design, how else would you be mindlessly attacking me?



You are a cheerleader with pointy teeth. Keep chewing.

Little G, you must be doing something right. Your shirt is one of the highest selling shirts this week!

Little G, I don't know why this is making you upset. I am for parody, but I am not for the LEGAL CATEGORY of parody as a justification of appropriation. I think parody is funny and fine. I think appropriation is fine by itself, not needing the veneer of parody to justify it. By this standard, what you have done is just.



You said that it bummed you out, or it was a downer or something, and you went so far as to contact cafepress to ask if there was anything that could be done. I'm sorry if that does not qualify as complaining.

BTW UberJackass.. when i posted this blog, the only other one i saw on the MAIN PAGE was regarding someone else on cafepress having the same shirt. after i read what that blog was about, i decided to post this, simply to ask about the copyright laws. I was not aware that you could do a parody, legally.. as I've seen some other shirt sites that do not allow this.



Get off your elitist high-horse.

You people just like to argue because it gives you something to do

It bummed me out and was a downer that people would think I ripped someone off spires. That is the bummer and downer.

shatteredglass - I DO LOVE TO ARGUE. perhaps even when i'm wrong.



UberRyan - i usually do read through ALL of the blogs before i make a post that may be redundant.. so, i will try to do better next time. :)