T-Shirt Hell vs Sticker Havoc
February 2nd, 2007 by sape
For a while I have been a fan of T-Shirt Hell (http://www.tshirthell.com/), a small T-Shirt company which makes humourous offensive t-shirts, checking their site regularly for updates, new t-shirts, etc.
However, I recently stumbled upon Sticker Havoc (http://www.stickerhavoc.com/), a small sticker/badge/t-shirt site, and realized something; a lot of the content is similar of identical.
All of T-Shirt Hell’s work is copyrighted, whereas Sticker Havoc has no such sign down the bottom, and the designs from T-Shirt Hell look a lot more professional, and fit in with the rest of the site, but on Sticker Havoc they look offensive on a not-so offensive site. The t-shirts are so obviously ripped it’s sad. Here are some examples:
I (heart) transitive pictograph verbalizations
T-Shirt Hell
Sticker Havoc
Every Time You See a Rainbow, God is Having Gay Sex
T-Shirt Hell
Sticker Havoc
I’ve had it up to here with midgets
T-Shirt Hell
Sticker Havoc
I’m just in it for the parking
T-Shirt Hell
Sticker Havoc
They even stole a couple from Busted Tees (http://www.bustedtees.com/) – Missouri loves company
Busted Tees
Sticker Havoc
Santa is coming
Busted Tees
Sticker Havoc
You can check the sites; there a lots more that Sticker Havoc copied. Bastards.
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A copyright sign need not accompany copyrighted material. Copyright is granted upon a work’s fixation in a tangible medium.
busted tees stole the jesus shaves idea from a stencil done by someone on stencil revolution so its not like they are innocent
Anyone who does anything with Jesus Shaves stole it from David Sedaris, who used it as the title of a story in 2000
I see about 4-5 of mine, one’s even DIRECTLY cut and pasted. They even combined my D20 shirt with a similar one from Penny-Arcade.
This is gonna be fun to watch!
wow, and there are two of my designs, too! I feel strangely honored and absurdly angry.
Man, that’s almost as bad as this guy:
tblurts.com
As of 5-Mar-2007, every page comes back as HTTP/410 GONE looks like it worked.
The site still comes up.
Hahahaha http://www.thinkgeek.com/pennyarcade/gamer/7f25/zoom/
http://www.stickerhavoc.com/cgi-bin/stickerhavoc.cgi/1887021606/stickerhavoc/2152157
What a bunch of bullshit.
I’m only in my second year of law school, but you’re confusing copyright and trademark. Copyright protects artistic works, Trademark is protection for slogans:
http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/tac/doc/basic/trade_defin.htm
Your examples from Busted Tees don’t even make sense in this context. Google around:
http://www.google.com/search?q=missouri+loves+company+shirt&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a
Do you seriously think they came up with that one?
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Good work!
-Ss
Vinxi Clothing also got lifted from t-shirt hell this week. Check their Pro Choice T shirt design and the tshirt hell Pro Choice design. Fuckers
http://www.vinxiclothing.com
Yeah, tblurts is hardcore… ripping off official licensed gear too…
http://www.cafepress.com/tblurts/2154391
http://stylinonline.stores.yahoo.net/tszeldatriforcedist.html
Great site guys, keep it up!
The nature of fashion is to expand upon ideas done by others. Domestic distributors (Target, Old Navy, Forever 21, Anchor Blue, etc) have private labels that are just copies of major designers runway pieces. In the case of art, its very difficult to win a copyright infringement lawsuit when the violator could just claim they were “inspired” by the original. Its how the world of knock-offs works. Thats why people like Issac Mizrahi, Todd Oldham and Kimora Lee Simmons have released rights to their exact designs/label so they can get SOME credit and SOME profit from companies that will just follow the trends anyway.
Trends are the bottom line- trends dictate whats hot in retail, trends dictate what people produce to sell. Dont blame the people that are jumping on the bandwagon.
You guys are great!!! I noticed a couple of rip off of my stuff on both stickerhavoc and tblurts. Cafepress actually took some initiative with one of ‘em. You can’t mess with Tshirthell..
They stole mine too…everyone steal mine…why? It take so much time hunting them down!
http://www.roadkilltshirts.com
They stole mine too…everyone steal mine…why? It take so much time hunting them down!
http://www.roadkilltshirts.com
Waaaa ha ha ha ha like you haven’t ripped half them fucking designs
Anyone who does anything with Jesus Shaves stole it from David Sedaris, who used it as the title of a story in 2000
Not necessarilly. It’s entirely possible for another person to come up with the same idea without having heard it from him. That kind of thing happens all the time. Just because he did it earlier doesn’t mean other people are necessarilly copying it from him.
This website has some
funny t-shirts,
check them out today