I New York has been trademarked for a long time.


KTVFashion reply to the email and ask exactly what the problem is. They will tell you. It might be something in tags or description.

Maz- The fact that the term has been copyrighted for a long time was not my point. Great for you that you knew. Kudos and a brownie point for you. 3,000 or more shopkeepers didn't know and have had those products posted for sale, for many years and many have sold those products with no problem. Now,they will be pulled. I feel it is wrong.

My point was that, it seems like EVERYTHING these days seems to be copyrighted or trademarked. This limits our designs and /or text! I am amazed at what is now "copyrighted" and "trademarked". Simple phrases,images and text....off limits. Like the "tree" at a California golf course.

Do you realize that the word "love" is not only- copyrighted,but also a "trademark"? All of our products that have the stand alone word "LOVE" could be pulled if some corporation complains.

I had a product pulled that read "Country Girl". Trademarked. My sister couldn't get a totebag made with those words!

I had a friend that wanted her name put on a "baseball" shirt. Her name is Bambi. She couldn't get it!

I am JUST saying.

Country girl and country boy are trademarked by the same person. Another shopkeeper has had to deal with him in the past, and it was a horrible experience for her.

Would you rather be forced to pay back any royalties you previously made on trademarked or copyrighted material? Would you rather the companies that own the trademark sue you for profiting commercially from their legal property? I think having it taken down, no harm no foul, is much, MUCH better.

I had a celebrity portrait of my own work to reproduce on canvas or print pulled off twice from Zazzle while noting other artists with also their original work is still up. First, I do have the right to create original artwork, while photography is another issue and at the core of the celebrity privacy rights. My feeling is that someone has anonymously reported a violation, and I have heard tell that it's not necessarily by those who hold copyrights, but more from competition in the marketplace, as paranoid as this claim may sound. It's infuriating when this happens, and with our judicial system, prohibitively expensive to defend your rights. Secondly, another issue that comes into play, and brought to attention by SweetRascal, is commercial usage, and whether an offensive celebrity display. At the core here is more of the potential loss of sales by the licensing group. Artists rights are becoming fewer and fewer with the oh so many laws, no matter how creative and original the work.

Yeah, you can't do it here. They can, and will, sue you. You are infringing on their intellectual property. Everyone has the right to say how their image/name can be used. I can't draw a picture of my daughter, and try to sell it without her written permission. It's her likeness, and she has legal rights to it.

Even if you see something like this in the marketplace doesn't mean Zazzle allows it, or will allow anyone to buy it. Nothing except stamps (and keds when they return) are pre-approved. They haven't been reported yet, or someone hasn't tried to buy them yet. When they do, Zazzle will pull them.

Well put. I think a lot of people here were not even born yet when the NY advertising campaign was so huge back in the 80's or 70's, whenever that was. As someone who experienced it, you might as well be arguing for the right to make money off the Mouse (as an artist).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Love_New_York

I'd agree. Seems like this is one that could significantly impact lots and lots of Zazzle sellers. Especially in the terms of this part:

"Anything that contains or resembles this will need to be removed."

Keyword "resembles". I'd like to see a better parsing of what "resembles" might mean. Does this extend to mean, for example, no images of "I " anything?

I understand when something iconic is trademarked. The I heart New york design has been around for decades and was what started the whole I love this or that trend.

What bugs me is when people try to trademark stuff that is already in the common vernacular. Common phrases that people are already saying like get lucky or life is good. That is weak. If you can't be creative then maybe go be an accountant or something.

I know this isn't zazzles fault, I just wish they would make the law state you have to be the one who came up with the phrase or design in order to tm it.