BlueSunShirts.com getting FOXed?!!?
POSTED BY: TenthCrewMember
UPDATED: Friday, October 27, 2006 10:34
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It is sad to see such a great site and a great browncoat brought low by Fox. Alex's shirts were a big help in promoting the show and then the movie.
Guess we will have to go to other less visible sights to get our FF shirts.
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Originally posted by Storymark:
I know people here love tobash Fox, I'm not above it myself, but try to remember they're not doing it to actively hurt Firefly fans. They are a business, and they do things that make business sense. If someone were selling Strange Luck or Dark Angel bootleg shirts, you can bet Fox would be on them, too. For that matter, try selling some bootleg Serenity shirts, and I'm sure Universal will come knocking pretty quick.
Quoted for truth. The unfortunate fact is, if it comes to the attention of Fox that someone is using their copyrighted images for profit, they have to act on it. If they let someone get away with it, they are implicitly giving permission for others to do the same, and that gets them in a whole lot of trouble. They might not be able to defend their copyright in the future because a precendent has been set.
I'm not saying I'm pleased when I see lawyers going after the little guys, and I would like to see Fox actually use the copyright themselves: at least to sell their own t-shirts, if not to make a new series. The only thing the little guys can hope for is to remain small enough that you are below the lawyer's radar. It's just too bad that bluesunshirts came under their icy gaze...
I also see a difference between Fox going after someone making money, and Fox going after nonprofit fan sites or fan products. If they were sending cease and desist letters to fanfic writers, I'd be furious. However, the folks at bluesunshirts are charging money for their product, and I'm sure they are not sending a portion of their profits to Fox. I don't feel all that sorry for them.
(Which is not to imply that they are the villians in this story - I doubt they were getting rich selling Blue Sun shirts.)
Copyright law exists for a reason. Firefly would never have been made if Fox had not been willing to pay for it. There's no doubt that they treated the show poorly, but that doesn't change the fact that they "own" it.
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While the legalese about the "C&D" is certainly true...it still certainly sux bigtime!
I'm new to Firefly (yeah, what can I say??) saw how much enjoyment Browncoats were having at DragonCon...bought the series, the movie, now my 16 yr old son and I love it!!
I'm doing a Browncoat, Mal's pistol, holster, etc. Jayne's LeMat (all metal)Working on his outfit as well.
My boy will be doing a Browncoat also.
got a Blue Sun tshirt last week (great service!) just ordered a Fighting Elves and Blue Sun black bb cap to show support.
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Gotta love Jayne's LeMat- Or, how I've named it-
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Can't get enough Firefly props!!
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I'm wondering if, because actual licensed "Blue Sun shirts" exist now, that FOX simply went to buy up all the .com/.org/.everything as companies are doing nowadays and BlueSunShirts.com, of course, came up as owned by someone else. I reckon that if his site had been called BSShirts or BleuSolShirts, or something more subtle or less significant, he may have never even made the radar. I think the name got him busted moreso than the products he sells. A shame nonetheless.
Just food for thought.
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It is a shame! Whenever a new Browncoat came around looking for merchandise, the first place you'd send them was bluesunshirts.com.
I just ordered a couple shirts.
We'll miss your site, Alex! Stay shiny and don't let FOX get you down.
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I have two of Alex's shirts from over a year ago, and they are holding up fantastically! I just ordered a black Blue Sun shirt and a Troublemaker shirt. Sorry to hear about the crackdown.
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Okay, I just have to add that if Fox wanted to make money off of Firefly/Serenity stuff, then they shouldn't have cancelled it!!!!!! That's all there is to it...they got rid of it 'cause they didn't want it, so they shouldn't be able to just change their mind! Anyways, do they really own the copyrights to it? I thought that Universal or someone got 'em.
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As I've posted several times before.... FOX is the cure for happiness.
After buying seasons 1 and 2 of Arrested Development, they didn't even give the 3rd season a chance (even though they brought in Oscar Winner Charlize Theron and Scott Baio). They ran it against impossibly tough competiton (American Idol, if I'm not mistaken) and then blitzed all of the remaining episodes on one night to make room for Prison Break the next week.
If FOX is going to make more episodes of Firefly then by all means cause some 
about it, but if not then FOX can go to hell.
It's time to shit or get off the pot FOX!
Edit: I didn't see any feds raiding the local flea markets when the illegals were selling bootleg Chicago Bulls Championship shirts and hats back when I was a kid. Like gun ownership in America, the only people that are ever penalized are the law abiding, tax paying citizens.
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I just bought a shirt off of bluesunshirts.com. I never paid for my copy of Firefly as it was a gift so now I've given more to the Browncoats than I have to the Alliance.... AHEM... I mean FOX. I will continue to burn copies of Firefly for anyone who wants them* and I encourage everyone to do the same.
* I burn for people I know personally, please, don't ask me if I only know you online. No offence... but you could be a FED. Besides... you can just download BitLord and use it to download the show from mininova.org or torrentspy.com or one of the other fine establishments that fight injustices like what we're witnissing here.
THEY CANNOT COPYRIGHT INNOVATION AND CREATIVITY!
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