a shirt we printed was on the tonight show last night!

[ericheartsu]

So last night was Jimmy Fallon's first night as the host of the tonight show! Will Smith was his guest, and he presented him with a shirt that a client of ours made, and we print and mailorder! Pretty cool!

[Action1]

That's fantastic Eric. Congratulations. Your company does excellent work. My entire team wears the shirts you made for us every day.

[GraphicDisorder]

Awesome!

[mimosatexas]

first of all: awesome!

second, and not to derail the thread, but...

I have seen that shirt or ones extremely similar (same photo, slightly different crop/scale/font or ink color) all over the internet.  There are probably 2 dozen etsy stores alone selling a version of it.  I kind of have two questions: is this legal to print as it uses Will Smith's image or does it fall into the gray area of parody?  Also, is your client the actual original owner of the design and just hasn't protected it at all?  Like I said, not to derail the thread, just curious as this is a good example of a lot of types of shirt requests I get and everyone has always said "err on the side of caution".

[whitewater]

well we printed one for the last tonight show host....

[3Deep]

That's cool!!

Darryl

[ericheartsu]

first of all: awesome!

second, and not to derail the thread, but...

I have seen that shirt or ones extremely similar (same photo, slightly different crop/scale/font or ink color) all over the internet.  There are probably 2 dozen etsy stores alone selling a version of it.  I kind of have two questions: is this legal to print as it uses Will Smith's image or does it fall into the gray area of parody?  Also, is your client the actual original owner of the design and just hasn't protected it at all?  Like I said, not to derail the thread, just curious as this is a good example of a lot of types of shirt requests I get and everyone has always said "err on the side of caution".

To be perfectly honest from what i understand, it falls under the parody law. but i'm not 100% on it, but we do have an entertainment lawyer that we work with, and we got the ok on it. I would say though, NONE of us expected will smith to have one. I do know Jada's Brother ordered 6 of them though.

As far as I know Night Owls and our client are the original owners. That "how to piss off a hipster" picture that floated around the internet, is our actual client, wearing the shirt we printed. We designed it (if you can call adding text and halftoning a pic, design). We are actually going through the etsy shops today, to try and stop bootlegging

[mimosatexas]

ah good to know.  Just fyi, it is on a lot more than just Etsy.  They are being sold on cafepress, zazzle, printfection, etc. and a bunch of random shirt sites.  If you google "the smiths will smith shirt" and go to images you will see all the different "versions" being sold.

[MrBreeze]

Well if we're showing off here's one of my designs from my shop.