fullbleed was on a canadian show called jpod, i’ve never heard of it...
and here is my dilemma, i found someone within the US selling pirated tees. they did a pretty good job w/ the prints too, but they were slightly sloppy and made one mistake that made me realize they are bootlegs. here is the kicker, he isn’t even that far away. i am thinking about ordering one to get his address and then getting the police involved, can anything actually be done if someone is selling counterfeit items?
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Cole said 7 months ago
yea, you can go to his house and kick his ass.
heavyprints said 7 months ago
I was going to suggest that, myself. Kick his dog while you’re there.
Cole said 7 months ago
step on his roses.
manos said 7 months ago
He is clearly infringing your copyright. I don’t think police will get involved. This is more of a lawyer type of thing. I nice well written letter in order to scare him and make him stop printing your designs will do the trick.
faithbydesign said 7 months ago
I would think that counterfeiting is above the local police. I think this actually steps into government agency territories?
Randomentity said 7 months ago
jPod is based on the novel by Douglas Coupland. I’ve read the book, and keep forgetting there’s a show. It’s one of the funniest books i’ve ever read, and recommend it to everyone.
as far as the bootlegs, i don’t think cops can do anything. It’s copyright infringement, so it’s probably a lawyer thing like manos said.
Gordocreative said 7 months ago
I don’t know about where in the US we are talking about, but here in Miami,FL police do get involved with counterfeit items being sold. There’s always busts of people selling counterfeit Tommy Hilfiger, Prada, Ralph Lauren, etc. I don’t see how this wouldn’t fall into the same category.
You might want to call the Attorney General’s Office in the state and see if they have any advice on how to proceed if the police won’t do anything for you first.
justinryan said 7 months ago
Yeah, cops and even FBI are always raiding flea markets and even street vendor in nyc. Those are bigger companies, but I don’t seee how size would matter.
stefankane said 7 months ago
i vote you go to his house and cross body splash him once he opens the door.
scapyyy said 7 months ago
howd you pick up on them being bootlegs?
AYYOGOLDSTEIN said 7 months ago
Yeah I wanna see these.
gameyy said 7 months ago
"Dr. ______,
My name is Howard F. Garett and I am acting as Primary Legal Advisor to Rob Dobi. Mr. Dobi recently consulted with me regarding your unauthorized use of several of his copyrighted works as seen on the web retailer "Fullbleed" [http://www.merchline.com/fullbleed]. I am writing to inform you that my client, Mr. Dobi, has reserved all rights to these works, first published in [year], and he has registered these copyrights accordingly.
Your works, entitled [names of infringing work] which appear on your web site at [website], is essentially identical to my client’s works and clearly use the Work as its sole basis. [Give few examples that illustrate direct copying and/or unfair use.]
Mr. Dobi has made it unmistakably clear that you have neither asked for nor received permission to use his works as the basis for yours, nor is he in any way agreeable to the distribution of said works. Therefore, as Primary Legal Advisor to Mr. Rob Dobi, I must inform you that you have willfully infringed upon my client’s rights under 17 USC Section 101, et seq. and could be liable for statutory damages as high as $100,000 per infringement.
I thus demand that you immediately cease the use and distribution of all infringing works derived from his works, and all copies of it, and that you deliver to me or my client all unused, undistributed copies of it, or destroy such copies immediately, and that you desist from this or any other infringement of my rights in the future. If I have not received an affirmative response from you by [date] indicating that you have fully complied with these requirements, I shall consider taking the full legal remedies available to rectify this situation.
Sincerely,
Howard F. Garett"
Cole said 7 months ago
yea that would scare the shit out of me...
printolithic said 7 months ago
gameyy’s post might do the job, then mail em' some fish so he knows he’ll sleep with the fish if it ever happens again.
Time Without the E said 7 months ago
you do have the images copyrighted though?
Kolby said 7 months ago
Fuck scaring him. You want some money right? You would have a case no problem. (What part of the shirt tipped you off?)
dobi said 7 months ago
i think i am going to order a shirt just to get his info, then go to the attorney general in MA. i’m not going to post any info on where his shirts are out of fear the emptees militia might take it into their own hands. i want this dude to drop dead.
Randomentity said 7 months ago
haha the emptees militia
we are pretty ruthless
Kolby said 7 months ago
Give me the address so I can order one! lmao
Jk
scapyyy said 7 months ago
lawlz the emptees militia.
beth said 7 months ago
Legally you are supposed to send a cease and desist letter where you can ask for their entire inventory of that shirt so they dont continue selling. I dont know how to go about it but I am sure your lawyer would know!
justgeoff said 7 months ago
Hire a lawyer to write up a cease and desist. It should only take an hour or so of his time to do it.
thewebguy said 7 months ago
a bunch of us will be in the area for bamboozle (and by 'in the area', i mean all the states north of the carolinas seem like only 30 min away from each other to me)
let’s just go kick his ass, yeahhhhhhh!
MICHAEL SHANTZ said 7 months ago
woah..... jpod...ok. soooooooo i didnt think i would say it cuz it wasnt t related but since were talkin jpod...i did all the custom toys that you see at their desks. and they rented 18 of my paintings which i havnt yet seen ....
ps, how do u screen capture from streaming videos? i will capture some pics of the toys i did..i did over 200
Randomentity said 7 months ago
WANT
i just watched the first 3 episodes, and seriously the book is on my top 10 list. sooo good.
MICHAEL SHANTZ said 7 months ago
its definatly awesome to see my work on tv. hopfully i get to do more work like that soon !!!
Randomentity said 7 months ago
just saw dobi’s "changing horizons" on episode 6.
the main character wears a lot of really well designed stuff.
i love this show.
skull with hair said 7 months ago
canada has TV?
noFunk said 7 months ago
the book is awesome, but i was a little down on the show for the first few episodes but its getting better. The one thing that won me over was a line in ep 3 when cowboy nearly hooked up with his sister:
"what do you expect, our parents died in a murder/suicide pact"
"worst Christmas ever"
the way he said it had laughing for ages afterwards!
noFunk said 7 months ago
also no evil mark :(
Randomentity said 7 months ago
i was saddened at the lack of evil mark.
i don’t know how much you’ve seen, but they made evil mark the guy that died from inhaling helium. and is actually the scene that dobi posted.
they also put in the
"why are you walking around with a giant knife?"
"oh, we’re trying to see if you can carry a knife this big around and not look insane. IT’S IMPOSSIBLE! Wanna try?"
noFunk said 7 months ago
yeh i saw that ep, i was hoping they were going to introduce him later on as in the book it said he’d only started a couple of weeks before katlin....
the guy that plays the dad is quite possibly the worst actor ever!
Randomentity said 7 months ago
Alan Thicke?!
I’ve seen him somewhere else anc i can’t think of where now. i’m no judge of bad acting, he doesn’t seem that bad to me.
i was disappointed by the portrayal of Kam Fong, i imagined him as younger and hipper.
noFunk said 7 months ago
maybe hes not a bad actor, but the way he plays the dad just bugs me, he plays it so slapstick and unrealistic (not that its a very realistic show but hes just so over the top)
yeh i thought Kam Fong would be younger, in the book hes meant to be really intimidating but still on the same wave length as the jpod guys. in the show hes just kind of there. The guy that plays Cowboy is awesome, he’s exactly how i imagined he’d look and act!
In the book didn’t it turn out that Katlin wasn’t really fat she just made it up? also whats the deal with her having a kid, that wasn’t in the book was it?