BlueSunShirts.com getting FOXed?!!?
POSTED BY: TenthCrewMember
UPDATED: Friday, October 27, 2006 10:34
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Originally posted by WhoIsRiver:
Edit: Actually, I've just noticed they have the license from Universal, not FOX, so god knows why FOX are trying to enforce things. Pretty wacky.
They also have a Firefly shirt: http://stylinonline.stores.yahoo.net/tsfireflylogobrown.html
Which I assume had to be licenced from Fox.
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http://stylinonline.stores.yahoo.net/firefly.html
Is a whole bunch of Firefly stuff. I hate to say it but if you produce licenced stuff without a licence, you can't really complain about a letter like this.
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This makes me undyingly sad. Fans are fans man. I have a fighting elves shirt from bluesunshirts.com. It is the best thing ever. I highly encourage everyone to freaking buy his stuff. At least if he does get stupidly shut down, it'd be with a bang and a huge show of support.
At the same time though, I understand the reasoning behind a network wanting to be the sole gainer of profit. But, well, we all know where FOX stands in that. They're the ones who shut it down in the first place. It's not as if they get no money from other things.
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Quote:The Blue Sun logo with the correct usage characters appeared in "The Message," and maybe elsewhere.
Originally posted by BWare42:
The Blue Sun shirts on bluesunshirts.com did not appear on Firefly, did they?
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It's very strange that Fox is getting involved at this point.
Corporations (and I work for one IN the licensening department) only tend to go after their big Properties on their own.
Huge companies like Fox only send C&D's for smaller Properties like Firefly if one of their licensees has complained that the sale of similar items is infringing on their agreement.
If Fox/Universal continue to sign licenses for this Property, there is something to be said about Firefly/Serenity being viable.
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Corporate America is wacky. I once got a cease and decist order from the got milk? people over my GOT MUDDERS MILK? design. Effectively, their argument was, even though my image looked NOTHING like theirs, because I had the words "got" and "milk" in it, they we're flexing their corporate muscles. I couldn't even put "got a big thing of liquidy stuff some folk think is milk?" using any font, because in their mind "got" and "milk" are in it and they know I don't have the money to fight it.
It is how it is.
Still, I thought FOX released the Blue Sun image to public domain in order to encourage fans to promote the show on their own site? http://www.fireflyfans.net/firefly/features.htm
When did they copyright it? and I guess they own the copyright on horses, stars, water, cacti, dirt, and chopsticks too...
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Gorramit. This is retarded. Sure it's legal, but it sure as hell ain't moral. (subliminal reference to "Heart of Gold") Gorram F*x!
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Unless FOX has plans on releasing a bunch of high quality, screen accurate Jayne shirts (which I doubt), then this news is quite lame.
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See, this is the thing that bothers me. F*x only offers limited Firefly merchandise, and then bugs out when other people put thier stuff up. And yes, well, it's not techinically legal, but it's fandom. We cannot buckle in to this. The more cash cow Fox sees Firefly is, the less willing they will be to let the franchise go, and we can get on with our lives. I don't see what we can do other then try to buy less official Firefly stuff. It's getting to the point where F*X can smell blood in the water and either they're going to sell it soon, or they're never going to.
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It would really be a shame if this whole thing forced Browncoats to go underground in order to peddle their wares. Some people might construe this sort of thing as illegal and that just wouldn't be in the Browncoat spirit. I sincerely hope I am not planting any unethical ideas into some disgruntled merchant's mind.
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