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Betsy said:

@Woz .. next time we have this discussion, use the 'Blek le Rat' defence, he's a French artist, considered the father of stencil graffiti, you could identify his work by a small stencilled rat.. the same rat which Banksy used in his early work.. so even Banksy isn't adverse to plagerising art

Pfft! i would have had no response.. keep it in your back pocket for next time old friend

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this is what I wad referring to with my "oh the irony" comment.

Betsy said:

I don’t think you can, Nike could issue a cease and desist order here, if they refused, they would be taken to court and bankrupted, Nike have very deep pockets! .. they just don’t give a shit because a couple of 100 t-shirts has no impact on their profits and the ‘design’ in question isn’t damaging to their brand… I appreciate international copyright isn’t as easy to enforce but Nike do tend to hold copyright across the board.

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fair use. Nike follow USA law. you can use it, but if you start making millions, they will come after you. there is a case going through at the moment between Adidas and Nike for Nike using an Adidas symbol. they argue that it isn't fair use.

Have a delve into the history of Supreme Italia @novocaine that’s and interesting case they coined the term 'legal fake' .. to nutshell it, NY streetwear brand Supreme held no marketing authorisation in China so a second Supreme company was established in Italy, a carbon copy but unrelated to the Supreme brand, they applied for and obtained marketing and sales authorisation in the burgeoning Asia Pacific region (excluding Japan where original Supreme held copyright) the brand grew into a multimillion pound company, just copying Supreme designs, they worked with other brands, household names like Samsung .. so for a period, there was two Supreme labels .. Like two Nike's, two Toyota's two Apple Mac's.. it was just madness.. long / short .. after many years it eventually got to court, £10 mill fines were issued and the company directors jailed.