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[glockgal]

AVATAR: ZAZZLE/VIACOM FAIL
Wow. OH WOW. All but one of the products on my racebending.com Zazzle store has been removed because "it contained content in violation of Viacom's intellectual property rights". This means not just images (all of which were drawn by me), but also WORDS

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[glockgal]

Fo sho! I logged into the zazzle account and noticed that they deleted the products, but not the images. And what I had created the t-shirts from were these:


Wherein all the art was created by me and...yeah. The supposed copyright on 'Aang' and 'The Last Airbender' is a fallacy, but - but that they took down the products with the BLUE ARROW and the little monk that I drew?!?! LIKE. WHAT.

[woldy]

Sounds like Zazzle are running scared of Viacom even though it seems unlikely (I'm not a lawyer, so I can't say for sure) that they have a remotely legitimate copyright infringement case. Motherf*ckers.

[brown_betty]

The one that makes my head implode with rage is the guy in a parka and mukluks; no, Viacom, YOU DO NOT FUCKING OWN PORTRAYALS OF THE INUIT.

But nice of them to acknowledge that Katara and Sokaa are kinda inuit-ish, I GUESS.

[woldy]

Looking at it, I wonder if the filenames rather than the images were what Viacom disliked about the monk, Inuit and arrow given that they're all prefixed with "avatar_" ? Might changing the filenames solve the 'problem'?

I was going to make a sarcastic comment about Viacom having to fight with the 2010 Olympics over cultural appropriation of the Inuit (given that the Olympics' inunnguaq logo is on all sorts of expensive branded clothing etc.), but I guess sarcasm is unproductive.