Mr Genious
aka Marko Steveyonce III is 46.34 years old, has been a member since September 21, 2008, has scored 103 submissions, giving an average score of 2.03.
I hate to break it to you Threadless, but once again you've printed a stolen design. This shirt is based on a popular internet video by Charlie Schmidt.
He owns the intelectual property rights to Cool Cat. He also sells Cool Cat tshirts on his Zazzle site. See HIS shirts
Charlie Schmidt is one of the finest performance artists of our generation and it's rather sad that Threadless would print this and not give him a good chunk of the profits considering they are making money off his idea and images of his cat.
haha I thought this blog was a joke, but you do kinda have a point. If the intellectual property encompasses the keyboard cat and/or any variation of it, he might have a claim to some of the money threadless is/will make from it.
I was kind of wondering about this when I saw the design. But this has been such a huge phenomenon, you'd think the guy in charge of Keyboard Cat would be aware of it and would have contacted Threadless by now. Or he has and they've reached an agreement of some kind with him.
In the unlikely event that this isn't a lame troll, threadless just created a parody of two internet memes, they didn't steal any designs. Also, that guys keyboard cat shirts suck.
I'm sure he knows that since the shirt was featured on http://playhimoffkeyboardcat.com so I don't see wht you (blog writer) got all worked up over. I'm sure everyone has been cited and an agreement was reached.
ummm yeah thinking about it, oxen did take the image exactly as is, even in the darkside of the garden it barely shows darth vader, but it was taken off cause it was an issue, I dont get how this one having 100% rendered form the video art would not? specially since the guy is selling shirts etc as well. if it gets taken down eitherway to wear in the future when noone knows what the hell it means, and its cooler cause it will be more random IMO
actually, i think the shirt would fall under the category of being a pardoy to the video... as the idea of the shirt is, in fact, original, and therefore probably falls under freedom of speech/expression
"Oxen would like to thank the Mountain Men, Fatso and Charlie Schmidt, Brad O'Farrell, threadless, and all of the people scoring, commenting, and buying, for being part of this mad, mad group project with us."
Sounds like the designer of the t-shirt had some contact with Mr. Schmidt.
Jul 25 '09 by
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