This shirt doenst need an explanation, its supposed to just as you see it.

er. supposed to BE jsut as you see it. Im not a great typist

..damnit...see what I mean. Im a much better speaker...just trust me.

you should rid the text. I love it on the brown shirt!

I don't mind the text...without it the shirt wouldn't have much meaning. I agree it looks best on brown.

I also agree that you should keep the text. It makes it funny. Nice job.

I debated LONG and HARD on the text here. I can't begin to tell you haow hard it was for me to decide on that. I like it both ways and found that the text brings it together. My next challenge was choosing a typeface that was readable, yet not too (TOO being the operative word), plain, while keep it somewhat "official". As for the colors i felt it worked VERY well on those colors.

Thanks in advance if this doesnt go too far.

The artist swiped this from Activision's cute ad/promo campaign for its Atari 2600 game "Freeway," (a game that was itself more or less a copy of "Frogger").

I think I earned the patch back in the 80s:
http://www.atariage.com/2600/archives/activision_patch_page.html?PatchName=Freeway&ImageName=Freeway

...ok so the concpet and image is a little borrowed. I don't see whats wrong here. It's over 20 years ago. Activision no longer has the rights updated, there is not an R or C on the patch, its free use.

I love this because I too have the patch and always wanted a shirt to go with it. I also hate when most people copy things, but fair is fair, its not protected. Its ballsy, but EJ RONAN never said it was his own creation...so you cant bust him for that.

Im sorry I had to come back to this in thinking about a comment. Yeah, I gave it a low score becuse it IS unoriginal, but no more so than the tracing of people and the ipods and the G5 apple computers, or the other products. so I give it a 3. Not original, but it is a pretty good idea to put it on a shirt. At least he said "official", I think he was alluding to cheesebikini point out. Som again I cant be really upset. Although I hate copists...even if it is tracing a photo of a face in vector. Its just as unoriginal.

Wow JarBGhast, you seem to really care a lot about defending this stolen design.

It's strange that you joined on May 1st...hmm...almost...like...you're...the same person?

This is a total rip-off. The concept and image are WAY more than a little borrowed. Not too mention that you totally acted like you made it up. You don't need a ®, ™ or © next to an image to protect it. If it if it IS no longer copyrighted, (although art law usually extends 75 years of unrenewed ownership to artisitc works before they become public domain) why would you want to so blatently rip something like that off?

Tracing an image to use as part of a design is very different from using the image itself. I usually hate it when people try and claim a copyright infringement on this website...USUALLY they don't have a basis for claim at all...

This shirt, however, SCREAMS copyright violation.

uh...Im not JarBGhast...

love this shirt - good work!

Ripped.

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I dont see anything wrong here really...so its a copy...wooo....moving on.... 5 from me

shweeet!

looks better in brown. nice.

I love the shirt and I like it with the text. Would look best on a brown shirt, all retro like.

Rating: 4

i like this alot, maybe cause i have a save the fish and duck fondation

D: But I LIKE eating chickens!

as do I

JarBGhast: all those claims you made about copyright are dead wrong. it's one thing not to understand copyright, but to preach ignorance as if you know it's fact is a dangerous thing.. Activision doesn't have to "have the right updated," whatever that means, for their copyright to stand. When you say "it's free use," I assume you mean it's fair use? It clearly isn't.. And it -is- protected, and people -can- bust/sue ronin and threadless for it if it's sold as a shirt.

Candy and others: I wasn't talking about whether this is ethically right or wrong (although I think it's a bit lame to copy something blatantly w/o giving props). I was talking about danger to threadless. Copyright law in the U.S. has become a complete joke that works for lawyers and big corporations, and works -against- creative people.

But the point is -- whether or not you or I like the law -- this is the way it is right now: if that shirt runs, all it takes is one greedy unethical lawyer (and the U.S. is infested with such lawyers) to catch sight of this as a money-making opportunity, and that lawyer can cause big problems for threadless.

I don't think that a lawyer who defends copyrights is greedy or unethical. Copyright law doesn't just work for big corporations, it's there to protect intellectual property. I work in a small creative department and we have, on more than a few occasions, taken legal action to defend our stuff.If someone rips off my work for his/her financial gain, I wouldn't think twice about getting a lawyer and getting some compensation.

Not that Activision will have to worry about this getting printed.

Totally ripped, how do you live with it?