Comments on: 7 Legal Tips for Your T-Shirt Business

By: Joe

Joe — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 06:03:54 +0000

What if you wanted to make fun of famous characters? Like how Glennz t-shirt does over at glenzz.com? Is that protected

Those shirts are awesome and I always wondered if these are done under protection from parody laws since they are obvious mockeries. (i.e., robocop stuffed with donuts)

By: Essie Hiscox

Essie Hiscox — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 05:22:45 +0000

OK good to see- informed comments are always sweet! Peace.

By: Peach

Peach — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 02:11:15 +0000

Great tips. This is another perspective of opening a business that I will have to look in to.

By: Luis V. Perez

Luis V. Perez — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 01:59:22 +0000

Ok, you say not to trademark until I see a profit or else I’ll will be wasting my money. But what if someone else takes the label/brand and trademarks it for themselves is there anything I can do about that?

By: Nichole

Nichole — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 19:29:50 +0000

How do I find out if the phrase I want to use has been copyrighted or trademarked? I haven’t seen it out there but i want to make sure.

By: Jess

Jess — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 09:11:51 +0000

Hi, I am designing t shirts for a company that is using images/logos from popular movies/shows, like Jurassic Park, Full House, etc. They tell me what they want, and I design them. I’m trying to write a contract for them to sign to basically say once I turn the files over to them, I can’t get into any trouble with any legal stuff for them using these images…even though I was their designer. What should I write??

By: nick

nick — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 20:34:39 +0000

if i use a picture of a political figure and edit it in photoshop to be like the silhouette or something like that…e.g. like the marlboro man or elvis images you see, is that ok?

thank you

By: Ben

Ben — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 20:27:37 +0000

Thanks for the info. We just created a parody Tshirt using a recognized musician’s name based on an internet/twitter meme… I don’t know if it will sell enough to cause a stir but still we didn’t want to be too risky.. parody is the way to go

By: Jeff

Jeff — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 22:09:19 +0000

Hi, thank you for the info but I want to know more specifications: If I use a picture from the internet, for example a picture of a famous singer but I modify that picture so it’s really not the same as the original with a program like Photoshop, is it legal if I plan to sell those T-shirts? and if I add a line of the singer’s song?

By: Georgette Mason

Georgette Mason — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 17:19:53 +0000

I want to use a (face only) photo of my 14-year-old granddaughter as the logo for my business (kinda like Wendy’s did only using a real photo). I also want to use the nickname I call her as the company name. My son does not have legal custody of her and her mother is a…ahem…well…anyway, what are the legalities here? I am submitting my items for sale at a large chain at its suggestion this week and hope to know ASAP. Thx!