My interpretation of what happened after the series was cancelled and the smurfs discovered that there were better things to do with 'shrooms than live in them.

smurfem fantastic-$5

(c) ?

dont think threadless would have accepted it if there was a copyright problem--
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@ baguettes

you are kidding right? how can you possibly justify this as not a copyright infringement?

i think all this copyright madness is getting our of hand and everyone is ripping off whatever they can find... sad very sad.

@ Manos
you are kidding right? look two subs over and theres et-up top glennz's twister--countless kongs--multiple jimi hendrixs--wtf are you talking about?
it's parody-i dont recall ever seeing the smurfs smoking hookas and eating shrooms
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@ bookemdano

dear james yes a smurf with a spliff is a copyright infrigment. you wanna do parody do it smart like glenzz not blantently like this that is why you can get busted.

first of all I didnt do this--Secondly, I think twister no matter who is playing is more of a copyright infringement-I mean its twister with sumos playing-i think milton bradley would consider using that themselves were it still promoting twister--thirdly why are david bowie, jimi hendrix, king kong, star wars, an operation shirt which was printed, et flying past the moon with an another alien on his bike, clue, mouse trap, humpty-dumpty, etc, etc, not copyright infringement? you dont know what you are talking about and I will side with Threadless who accepted the submission not you.

smurfs on shrooms-gotta love it!
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Jesus man cool a bit you might pop a vain.

gimme gimme gimme!5$

Bookemdano... Just so you know, simply because threadless puts a design up for voting does NOT mean that they mad e the decision that such a design has passed muster with the lawyers in that they will permit it to be printed. Also, even if a design like this does receive high votes, (which, if this site is now overrun by stoner geeks who didn't get one of these when they were in college back in 1987, it will), then Threadless would likely NOT print it. This is simply because of economics... even if this is in fact a parody, it likely won't be worth it to Threadless to pay the legal fees to fight a cease & desist letter and/or take such a conflict to court. It will be just as easy for Threadless to print the next design that comes along containing a unicorn or a monkey or a panda bear in order to pander to the same mindless 16 year olds now proliferating the Threadless population. Discuss.

HOLD up TrivitsMeBoy I am the one who drew this--It took a few days to do btw and is not simply a cut and paste job- Are you suggesting that Im a stoner geek or pandering to mindless 16 year olds? And where are these shirts that were made back in 1987 when you were in college?
1.I searched on the net before doing this shirt for any smurf parodies and was unable to find anything similar
2.I dont see how incorporating Alice in Wonderland and Hair and mind expansion with the smurfs is mindless.
3. As kindly pointed out by bookemdano, Threadless has printed many shirts which certainly border on copyright infringement--calling home--dark side of the garden-operation needed,you sank my battleship, neon monkey(planet of the apes), the fast supper, dad?,neonmedia2, bleeding sun remix,etc--Because those designs were immensely popular and mine is apparently not does that make it more of a case of copyright infringement?
4.What qualifies you to decide in what case something becomes copyright infringement? Im sorry if you dont like my design as I said I worked hard on it, but when its posted next to the famous image from ET poster (with slight modifications) I find this discussion rather ridiculous.

To those who like it and commented thank you. I dont think any of you are mindless 16 year olds.

Im not a mindless 16 year stoner either and I love it

definately a copyright infringment man.

everything I mentioned is equally culpable yet for some reason some people have chosen to scapegoat my design as THE example of copyright infringement-TrivitsMeBoy, Manos, Ava Adore discuss-Personally, I think it's pretty self-evident that if you say my design is than the other exs I pointed out are too, but for whatever reason I'm getting all the criticism.

i like it

@ bookemdano

Manos is right. Here's a little legal lesson: a lot of things that are technically copywright infringement are allowed because no harm is done (i.e. Hendrix shirts are just great advertisement!) or it just wouldn't be worth it to go to court, but if the use of copywrighted image is significantly "harming" (i.e. stealing profits, hurting reputation) a company, then they WILL sue. Threadless probably allowed this T-shirt because 1) it's not being sold for profit (just part of a contest), 2) even if it was, it probably wouldn't sell enough to actually threaten the people who own copyrights to Smurfs (sorry Kamiblue!), and 3) is not so "malicious" or harmful to the image of the Smurfs that they would take any notice.

Richgama-I dont know what makes you think that the Hendrix estate or David Bowie or Mr T or the Christopher Reeves estate would consider someone else profiting off their likeness 'great advertisement'.
I'm not sure what your point is though I agree all the designs I mentioned plus many others are clearly some type of copyright infringement, although many(those w/elements of parody) could also all be argued to be fair use. Threadless apparently does not seem to have a problem with this as you can see by the list of winners(dark side of the garden-operation needed,you sank my battleship, neon monkey(planet of the apes), the fast supper, dad?,neonmedia2, bleeding sun remix,etc) which all fall into that category. I dont have a problem with this either, my qualm is that my design has been singled out and demeaned as some type of aberration by Manos and TrivitsMeBoy while it seems the norm on Threadless. I am not even talking about the vectorized images and copies of previously submitted designs. But what irks me most is that the design now directly next to mine, elliot's new friend, which is clearly the ET poster with minor changes, has received nothing but praise from the Threadless community and here I am defending myself against almost universal accusations of copyright infringement. Personally, I think elliot's new friend is great but if Manos and TrivitsMeBoy feel the necessity to comment on mine where are their comments on it and all the like?

who fuckin cares? I love this shirt and hope people can see past the bullshit
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i can´t see past the bullshit.

drugged smurfs aren´t funny anymore. the german comedian OTTO overdid all smurf gags in the late 70ties...so please, let them die alone!

who even knows who the german comedian OTTO is?
VIVA LA SMURFS!
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what is up with all of the shroom shirts on this site? be a little more creative, people.

shrooms make you a little more creative-maybe you should try some
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i like smurfette doing the richard nixon double peace

papa smurf is buddha

ps- i think the shroom thing is because the smurf house is a shroom

This is sorta funny. but I like the smurfs and I dont like drug references on anything I wear. :\

quoperate -feed your head, expand your consciousness-enter the mystic-go further-are your afraid of your true nature?

love the smurfs
love alice in wonderland
love this shirt

can't give too much credit because of copyright infringment.

please no more talk of copyright infringement unless someone would like to provide a sound argument against the one I already posted

Drugs shirts are just lame. Threadless is not Spenser's Gifts.

i think its pretty deep actually. two references to alice in wonderland-one to buddha-one to hair-and of course the reference to everyone's favorite cartoon communists the smurfs.

i <3 this !

Smurfs are no longer creative. Try coming up with your own characters (no offense) and get rid of the text. Otherwise, the tee is great and the female smurf is fanastically posed!

first smurf shirt ive ever seen on threadless-what is no longer creative are: robots, hearts, cassettes, et, mr t, lincoln, einstein,mary poppins, apes, chimps, elephants,birds,butterflies, guns, board game references, star wars, pirates, balloons, rubber duckies, fish and other underwater animals, skulls, penguins, astronauts, cowboys, boom boxes, afros, popsicles, little kids drawing,drawings which look like they were done by little kids,super heroes, jesus, elvis, fruit, cloud designs, dogs, kiss me frogs, ipod things
THIS IS CREATIVE AND ORIGINAL!
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richgama: i think smurfs smoking pot is damaging the image of being a childrenshow..dont ya think?

are you endorsing drugs :o

yes but only the psychedelics(Etymology: irregular from psych- + Greek dEloun to show, from dElos evident; akin to Sanskrit dIdeti it shines) and not for everybody

Forget the copyright infringement...the shirt isn't that good anyway.

better than your 'poetry'

damn hippies

far out! got my buy

Gee'bus Christ this T-Shirt SUCKS ASS!!!!!