BlueSunShirts.com getting FOXed?!!?
POSTED BY: TenthCrewMember
UPDATED: Friday, October 27, 2006 10:34
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Here's a link to an article I just saw on SerenityStuff:
http://www.serenitystuff.com/2006/09/14/bluesunshirtscom-gets-a-c-and-
d-letter-from-fox/
I apologize if folk have already talked about this, but I didn't see a thread on it...and I thought folk should know if they don't.
I could see if FOX was upset over certain designs, but if they are upset over the use of the BLUE SUN design...well...you can read my comment on SerenityStuff (which by the way is the coolest site on Earth-that-was behind this site!)
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The Reason for this might be that Unviersal already has already produced and made Blue Sun t-shirts. I myself have one and got it at hot topic. I don't know if i'm the only one that has seen them but really i don't think i am. Oh, by the way, it's a bad-*ss shirt. try to find one if you already don't have yours.
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There's two different designs of the Blue Sun logo, are they only going after one particular design?
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According to an email I got from Alex of Blue Sun Shirts, Fox wants his entire site shut down and he is to cease selling of all Firefly shirts.
I know that Fox owns the rights to all Firefly related articles and any images shown on their network, but WTF?!? Four years they have done nothing. Literally a hundred sites on line and Ebay merchants selling Firefly related items and they wait four years to do something. What a bunch of crap. Don't they realize that selling of such things help to market the dvd set they are making money off of?
It is this kind of shortsighted behavior that cost us the show to begin with.
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As much as I hate to say it, I think I am gonna start researching the "official" merchandise out there, and if ANY of it leads to profits for FOX, I am not buying it. If they continue, I'll resort to no longer buying DVD sets and I'll find other ways to introduce folk to Firefly...maybe go back to the way things were BEFORE the DVD set appeared...if you follow my meaning. 
Additionally, I am not going to watch FOX anymore. I love Bones and the Simpsons, but I love Firefly more. Sorry FOX, but you are dangerously close to the last straw where this fan is concerned (whom, along with many others, you would have NO marketability for your show without me)
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The Blue Sun shirts on bluesunshirts.com did not appear on Firefly, did they? If I recall correctly, the tv series used an incorrect character in its blue sun log...Which was corrected by bluesunshirts.com. If that's the case, an argument can be made that the Firefly "Blue Sun" is different from bluesunshirts "Blue Sun."
A tough argument, but it's the best one you've got!
Time for some thrilling heroics.
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Originally posted by BWare42:
The Blue Sun shirts on bluesunshirts.com did not appear on Firefly, did they?
It's a valid argument, but you'd be arguing in court with one of the worlds biggest companies. They'd crush you.
At the end of the day, as long as FOX don't start targeting other sites things are fine. They went after fan sites of The Simpsons, Buffy and The X-Files a few years ago and had them all shut down. So, fingers crossed they ignore places like here.
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One Buffy site I used to frequent had a cease and desist order banning her from using any Buffy images in her banners, graphics or anywhere on her site, as well as various other orders. I really REALLY hope they aren't stupid enough to pull something like that on still-flying.
I doubt it would effect me as I'm small fry and non-profit, but then so are most fan sites out there. The Buffy site (Buffy Cross & Stake) obeyed the orders without quarrel, but with a fair amount of bitterness since she'd basically given them free advertising for six years.
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As a show of support, I just placed an order with bluesunshirts.com.
It's sad to see just how petty some companies can be, and even sadder to realize just how short sighted F*X is! They continue to hurt themselves at every opportunity, instead of capitalizing on free advertising opportunities.
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In big corporate world there is no such thing as living with your mistakes.
FOX is starting to realise what they're missing out on and want not just a piece but the whole damn pie.
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