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by poopsintub 4363 days ago
I hate to be a downer but you're flirting with disaster here. Copyright infringement everywhere.
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We only offer shirts we have agreements with the artists with, are created/recreated by us, or have no searchable creation. There has been a couple times someone said "I made that!" and we add them into the royalty group when it looks like they are. I don't know if we have to do that even, but we do.

Most shirts people submit have licensing issues and the shirts we have with licensing besides Astrosloth don't sell as well.

EDIT: Spam blocker has limited my capability to respond, so I hope you see this:

"You're right, when we first launched based on community reddit posts. We had whatever was most popular since it was being made just for them but we grew past that quickly and realized it was going to keep going. This was just going to be a fun one-off ordeal. Now I have an adviser for licensing and I take it very seriously. Thanks for the compliments too!"

Do you mean the original artist or whoever random internet dweller decided to submit one of the memes?
Both. Original artists are easy to find and talk to. Or if a post was obviously originated somewhere, I messag ethem on whatever site that is.
I'm interested how long it took you for a huge company like Disney to get back to you. Did they charge you anything?