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Justice for 4cr! The All Saints Conflict is Over!

April 12, 2008 – 3:25 am

Success!! Victory! Wave the banners from the marble arches and fire your rifles in salute, dear Rebels: justice has been served for 4cr! Remember back when we found out that one of my 4cr Nintendo valentines had been plagiarized by a British high fashion retailer? Well, a settlement has been finally been reached and I’ve been paid and credited as the designer of the shirts!

Thanks to your attention and concern, dear Internet, I managed to get connected with the head of production of All Saints Apparel! After talking to him for a little bit, I got referred to the copyright attorney for the company, who told me the actual story behind what happened. All Saints Apparel, like many other apparel stores that produce their own designs, outsource their design work to … well, designers! One of these designers had a deadline to meet, and was looking for something to meet London’s insatiable desire for retro flava.

So, they found my image on a google search and, under pressure, copy-pasted it onto a t-shirt and hoped nobody would notice.

The company was actually relatively sympathetic to my case. They’ve had a number of problems with people stealing their designs, and they weren’t pleased with their designers when they discovered that they’d become what they hated. Their copyright attourney told me that the head of production didn’t quite behave like a proper englishman when he discovered the problem.

After some deliberation and some debate, we settled on an artists’ commission of over DOUBLE that which their own designers get. So, as a result, I still own the copyright on the picture. So, I remember that I said that we’d give some of the money to charity - but that’s back when I thought we’d be able to get a lot more than the money we got! (some research silenced that theory pretty quickly)

Anyway, I’m happy to announce that we’ve got another t-shirt run on the horizon that will get much more money to donate to Child’s Play, instead of the paltry little amount I would have been able to give with the settlement from this case. Stay tuned, rebels. We’ve got a cheap Tetris Heart shirt of our own boiling.

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