T-shirts and such at non-profit cost?

[razothredfire]

Poll Cafepress

Please post in the comments with any ideas or thoughts you have on the subject. Favorite quotes, phrases you'd like to see, anything. SiE is not-for-profit, so everything would be whatever cafepress or such dictates to be the base cost for materials.

CLARIFICATION: This would be strictly our SiE materials and no official logos, text, or other

Comments

[loony_lucifer]

If it's all just for fun and nobody's making any money off of it (we'd be spending monies actually), i'd say this is a pretty big "durrr". XD

And hell, anybody can make cafepress stores and stuff from my doodles that say SiE quotes. I don't care.

I've been futzing around with a store already (i'll show you laterz today), but i haven't bought anything yet cause i got no money for another shirt and don't have a comic ready to print yet.

[razothredfire]

The whole point of copyright law, originally, is to protect someone from making something awesome, then another person running out and making something NEARLY the same, pretending it's the same thing, and outselling the original at market. It is SUPPOSED to protect people who create things as a living from having their livelihood stolen, thus preventing them from creating more awesome.

No money is being made, and no money is being misdirected that would have been ending up in the copyright owners' pockets. They don't do anything SiE, if we tried to sell them on SiE I think they'd laugh and say they don't want Batman to be represented by Teh Gay, and if anything we encourage people to rabidly buy TDK stuffs. I know I has bought lots of TDK stuffs. Back when I had monies.

[loony_lucifer]

In a word: hopefully the WB won't give a rats arse. We're small timers.

[amat_vivere]

I would honestly just love a shirt that said "Slipping into entropy". It's ambiguous, but the title of this is still so unique that someone would still be able to recognize it if they read this too. I know there's a few quotes that I would LOVE on a shirt, I'll have to dig them up..

[slicensmile]

The Watchmen fandom is *full* of merch being sold on the net that outright breaks copyright laws. If you can find a site to host the stuff, then it'll sell (and I'll buy). Seriously, nobody's gonna sue you for selling a couple hundred dollars worth of merch. Way too small time. Batman fandom is even safer from scrutiny since Watchmen is the new big thing and that's probably where people will be focusing their law-enforcing attention.

The Watchmen people first tried selling their stuff through CafePress, which noticed and just told them "Bad. Stop." I doubt you would face any more consequences than this.

[slicensmile]

Also: fuck, do it for profit. Charge everybody an extra $2 and make a little cash on the side. Everybody else does it.

That's my two cents, anyway.

[kelikala]

Agreed... you guys should get some profit out of this as you have the RIGHT to make a profit from merchandise produced from your own story. Hell, I've been selling my own damn blood stained Joker cards that are similar from ones used in the movie and I've made a good profit from those and I haven't seen ANYONE come after my ass since I've been selling them. Do what you want and get what you DESERVE from selling your Entropy based products! With that said... I'm about to submit an idea of mine to this post!!!

[ghostwalker]

Also agreeing. ^_^

[ghostwalker]

'Slipping Into Entropy
What happens when madness and obsession escalates'
i love that quote. Anything to do with the obsession they have for one another, i'd snatch up for my Beloved (because i'm as obsessed with him as J is with the Bat in SiE). ^_^

[ghostwalker]

Tis a lovely (fitting) line. ^_^