Printing Beer Labels....

[BattleCry]

I have a client that wants to put a BOH label on some shirts, are there any copyright laws I should be aware of?

[vrooooom]

Natty Boh?



Um yeah, if you just jack that stuff then heads could roll. Will they roll? If you get caught. Safer and better yet to redesign it a bit and make a playful nod at the original.

[vrooooom]

Maybe moreso since they already have a store with t-shirts?

http://www.nattybohgear.com/

[Clay]

Looks like a rip-off of the Pringle's guy anyway..

[Josh Rickun]

in the video i thought it was that mistersmith guy

[BattleCry]

Thanks that does help and I will do that if they decide they want to go that route. I do still wonder what the exact rules are on this type of thing. I've heard that if you change 3 things about someone else's art you can then re use it. Does anyone know where I can find more on this subject?

[Unitus]

Let me google that for you

[crosshair]

I've heard that if you change 3 things about someone else's art you can then re use it.

LOLZ I've never heard that one before.

There are a lot of myths floating around about "fair use"... and they're all horseshit.
Bottom line: if someone feels that you have infringed upon them, and they have the desire and resources to crush you, they will crush you. Unless you have the resources to crush them back, harder, which is unlikely.

Ethical issues aside, if you want to crank out a handful of natty boh t's for your friends (i.e., not sell them), it will probably fly under the radar. Unless it doesn't.
But you've already broken the #1 rule of flying under the radar, which is don't post about it on the internets.

[BattleCry]

True, and I agree. I'll probably just decline this job, not worth the headache. How does KAWS do it, permission from the artist? Like his spongebob, pinocchio, simpson's and storm trooper renditions he sells on canvas and vinyl.

[kim_a]

My guess would be that KAWS just doesn't give a fuck.

My second guess would be that the owenrs of said characters don't give a fuck in that specific case since a high-profile street-artist putting their characters in pop-culture referencing paintings that are being sold to museums, collectors and celebrities for big bucks aren't the copyright holders biggest problem. Now, people using their trademarked characters on products that could be thought to be somehow affiliated with them, products that might or might not be of low quality and/or likely to attract negative attention, that is a different story.

The 3-changes rule is about as factual as the five-second rule.