Is it safe To Work on memes In Print on Demand?
Hey everyone,
I wanted to explain the Bernie Sanders trend. So what happened was, on Inauguration Day, Bernie Sanders showed up like this and for some reason, the internet went crazy over this picture. So what first happened was he got cut out,
just him and isolated and then he became a meme. So these are some of my favorite memes that I've seen on the internet. Him in Star Wars and Game of Thrones, with Deadpool and also some other memes here. So it just went crazy with the memes and people just put them everywhere.
You can see more of these. This is just a sample of them. So what happened after that, after the meme started getting popular, is on Amazon and other pod sites, people would start putting those pictures and selling them on t-shirts and other products. So you can see here, this one's selling. It's already getting a BSR.
These are selling here. These are selling and these are. Just the same photos and they just put them on the t-shirts. You can see this one's getting a lot of sales but just because these are getting sales doesn't mean that that's right. So you may be thinking in your head, Bernie Sanders is a politician,
like all politicians, we can do t-shirts for them and that is true. We can do t-shirts and sell t-shirts for politicians, U.S. politicians, but there are some rules. So for rule number one is don't use any photos of politicians. The photographer that took this picture owns the copyrights to this picture. So you can see here Brenda owns this and you can see she's selling it on Getty Images. So it is copyrighted. Please do not use photos. Just because you see photos of politicians on the internet, it doesn't mean that you can take those photos and sell them on t-shirts and print-on-demand sites. The second thing is Bernie Sanders has his own official staff. So you shouldn't be copying his logo, his t-shirt, or anything on here. You can see this is his official thing too. So by putting this on your shirt, you're actually copying Bernie Sanders, as well as the Getty Images. So uh, don't do that.
So anything here, as far as apparel or anything, his slogan, this or this is his. Again do not copy that. This is the way he's writing, Feel The Burn. Do not copy that. So long story short, remember you can sell Bernie Sanders shirts, only if they are original. If you came up with the design and it's not a copy of others or it's not a copy of Bernie Sanders official designs or it's not a photo that you found off the internet, (because those could be copyrighted as well) then you're okay to do that. But there are some rules when making shirts for politicians. So these rules apply to Bernie Sanders as well as to all U.S. politicians. So I hope that clears it up for you. I just wanted to make a really quick Article on this.
I'll see you in the next Artical. Bye.
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