I am sure this word twist has been drawn upon before, in other words I am sure Im not treading new territory, other then a lawsuit maybe; but whenever I view this site, this is the first thing that comes to mind. Perhaps the name, perhaps the mario themes that pop up…i dunno.
Little outside my style, but decent enough I thought to make an early submission. The text is a little too small in hindsight …never worked with cafe press before.
If you go to Kirupa.com you will end the confusion(what is a kirupa, and why is this guy wearing a shirt of it) - hence < / confusion > (unless that isnt what he was thinking, and I just made it up)
That’s really awsome… I practically grew up on Mario…
I understood the confusion tag, and I think it’ll be quite understandable to anyone who’d be interested in Kirupa anyway… It’s one of those things, if you don’t get it, you don’t have to… if you do get it, you appreciate it greatly.
I’m sure anyone who doesn’t understand that tag probably wouldn’t understand alot of the other t-shirts with witty catch phrases. I wouldn’t worry about it.
Kudos!
yea for sure your right though…not sure how it works…I did actually construct it myself…its all made in illustrator with boxs representing the pixels etc. (which was painstaking but nice for when I wanted to adjust colors) doubt that matters though…do we have to sell it?..is that part of the gig?..i dunno if it disqualitfies thats cool, Ill try another.
I have my cafepress price to not make anything off the purchase too…i dunno
You may want to check out this page: http://www.cafepress.com/cp/info/help/law.aspx Not sure though - but from what I was able to get from briefly glancing over it, using Nintendo’s copyrighted character may be a violation. Not 100% sure though.
This T-shirt is in violation of federal trademark laws. Nintendo’s rights are being infringed.
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Umm… lost… I agree about the shirt… it’s a **** shame it has to be disquilified how it is… But alas, rules are rules… And no design is above the rules.
And… you can’t put a small piece of text copyrighting it to nintendo… Because you aren’t paying royalties to them for it… So the t-shirts aren’t making nintendo money, it is technically illegal…
Yeah - I’ve heard numerous mario references associated with my name over the years!
