T-Shirt Design Trademarks`?
I have an online T-shirt store & need to know what limitations I have printing Trade Marks(ie. Transformers/old cartoons) and selling them. Do I have to get authorized or pay royalties? Thanks in advance 
Thank you Huh?… How would I go about getting authorization or approved designs to be able to print them myself? Google search isn’t yielding any real answers. A site like 80stees.com has tons of Hasbro owned TMs on there, how do they do it?
You need to be authorized to sell a trademarked item.
Sometimes you can obtain those rights easily, for example if you buy iron-on decals from an authorized distributor that has the trademarked characters on them, you can sell them. However you may not airbrush a trademarked character onto a shirt without a license from the trademark owner.
I once owned a shop that sold cakes. If we bought a overlay for the top of the cake with a Disney character on the cake that was OK, but if you came into the shop with a picture of a trademarked character and requested that we recreate the picture onto a cake we couldn’t do it.
Edit:
If you want to use the trademarked character you will have to contact the trademark holder and negotiate a licensing deal. It will mean paying royalties and possibly some control over the content of your tee shirt designs. For example Disney isn’t going to let you use a design showing mickey mouse holding a beer bottle and cigar.
March 20th, 2010 at 1:04 pm
you can find you need in this website:
http://www.ecdrops.com
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March 20th, 2010 at 1:19 pm
You need to be authorized to sell a trademarked item.
Sometimes you can obtain those rights easily, for example if you buy iron-on decals from an authorized distributor that has the trademarked characters on them, you can sell them. However you may not airbrush a trademarked character onto a shirt without a license from the trademark owner.
I once owned a shop that sold cakes. If we bought a overlay for the top of the cake with a Disney character on the cake that was OK, but if you came into the shop with a picture of a trademarked character and requested that we recreate the picture onto a cake we couldn’t do it.
Edit:
If you want to use the trademarked character you will have to contact the trademark holder and negotiate a licensing deal. It will mean paying royalties and possibly some control over the content of your tee shirt designs. For example Disney isn’t going to let you use a design showing mickey mouse holding a beer bottle and cigar.
References :