Mi Gente Clothing (Repeat offender)
AttorneyAnnieCommentary:
Dear YTWWN readers, I work with AttorneyScott and I'll be helping out with some lawyerly commentary on these tricky copyright issues over the next few days. For instance, the oh-so-specific "look and feel" test for substantially similar designs comes to mind. Below is a good example. Riccardo Tisci's depiction of Kanye and Jay-Z as beastly, fanged creatures for their Watch the Throne Givenchy t-shirts is a pretty awesome idea. But does it mean no other celebrity can be depicted as a fanged werewolf-like beast on a black t-shirt ever again? Did Mi Gente just recreate the idea by giving Lebron some fangs on his MVP shirt, to portray that he's an unstoppable beast on the court? Or did they go too far and copy the expression--the "look and feel"--of the Givenchy t-shirt?
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Notorious rip off artist Mi Gente Clothing is at it again. This time they took the Watch the Throne Givenchy designed t-shirt and applied it to Lebron James MVP shirt. MGC should stand for More Givenchy Copies.
May 30th, 2012 - 06:03
You can’t copyright an idea. It’s not copyright infringement to take someone else’s idea and make an inspired photo, or to put an inspired photo on a similar garment. Also, it’s important to know that there’s NO copyright protection for clothing design, so the idea that “face on black t-shirt with fangs” might be protected by copyright is wrong. The only thing that would be protected is the exact image or a derivative image that is infringing, but this is not an infringing derivative image because the photo is a different face.
May 31st, 2012 - 16:33
Only similar to the extent that a picture of any two random trees are similar.
June 2nd, 2012 - 13:22
O Yawn. I think this site has “jump the shark.”