There Are Limits to Designs on Custom T-Shirts
Many individuals have found the designing custom t-shirts online is fun, a good way to express your creativity, and a great way to get the perfect t-shirt and a very reasonable cost. In fact, custom designs printed onto t-shirts cost less on average than t-shirts found at the mall.
Printed t-shirts at the mall which feature popular bands or singers are popular. You might want an Aerosmith t-shirt, but find the high cost prohibitive. The same goes for children’s t-shirts. A t-shirt with Dora the Explorer costs so much more than a plain on. It’s tempting to get the graphics off the internet and have your own t-shirts printed with popular characters.
While this may seem like a great way to save money, you can’t do this. Many websites will not let you create custom printed shirts using licensed and copyrighted logos and characters. If you do find a way around this you could still get in trouble, especially if you attempted to sell the shirts. Celebrities fall into this area as well. Most celebrities own the rights to their likeness.
Photographers get away with publishing celebrity pictures in tabloid because the celebrities were out in public, and the photographer now owns the image they took. You can’t copy a photo published in a magazine and use it because the photographer or the magazine now owns it. You could get away with using a picture of Aerosmith if the band agreed to pose for you, however.
This article written by Phillip Thow