[ SECRET POST #6704 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6704 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Has anyone even been sued by fandom coms of recent? I think it doesn't happen as much anymore (at least where I've been), especially for big IP fandoms.

[(Anonymous)]

People get copyright takedowns from big corporations all the time. Usually they just take it down and that's the end of it, but not always.

For example: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/apr/26/sydney-woman-who-sold-a-cartoon-cat-t-shirt-told-to-pay-us100000-in-grumpy-cat-copyright-case

[(Anonymous)]

Does this count? It sounds like it was just the grumpy cat Trademark owners being assholes. The implication is that she is sued just for the name of the t-shirt design over the design itself. Like if Hasbro got mad at anything named "transformer" or "pony."

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, but that's why you see, say, "Transforming Robot" art rather than Transformers art on Redbubble etc. Disney in particular protects their trademarks.

[(Anonymous)]

It sounds like it was just the Grumpy Cat trademark owners protecting their intellectual property.

*ftfy

[(Anonymous)]

The shirt wasn't Grumpy cat, it was a design she purchased in a design site of a cat looking grumpy and named it something like "grumpy cat shirt." Not THE Grumpy cat, a cat looking grumpy.

"a T-shirt of a frowning purple and yellow cat"(...)"The design for the T-shirt had been licensed from a design website, titled “Grumpy Cat Pattern Graphic T-shirt”."(...)"The company also argued that the trademark infringement was due to the name of the product being “Grumpy Cat Pattern Graphic T-Shirt”."

[(Anonymous)]

If you had seen it, you would know it was a cartoon of Tardar Sauce. Changing the colors wasn’t enough to get away with it.

Did they need to sue her? No. They could have simply done a takedown notice like the major IP holders do for a first time infringement. But any IP holders can skip the takedown notice and go right for the jugular because the “artists” have zero rights when using someone else’s property.

[(Anonymous)]

Wasn't able to find any pictures of the shirt itself, just going by what says on the article, you happen to still have it?

I don't disagree that if a infringement is happening they have the right, I just don't think this is a good example.

[(Anonymous)]

when I say be careful, I mean something like - don't assblast it across the internet to let everyone and their cat know you're doing comissions.