Iowa Customized T-Shirts

gamedayron said:
We have hundreds of designs. We will NOT use a player's name or picture on our products. All of our products are licensed products when they use University logoes or terms.
We do have our tailgating line of designs that are not licensed products.
I would be very careful in what you print and sell.
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Can you give a website or email me so I can check out your stuff?

Thanks
 


HAWKEYESTATE4ever said:
Seriously though, I am not trying to do anything illegal, and I am not trying to make any money. Please tell me what I can and cannot legally do?

A friend of mine already made the McNutt shirts with no problems. I simply changed the design a bit. I made the others on my own. I have not ordered anything yet.
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I don't recommend you sell anything without getting it licensed first. They will find you and sue you. Chances are they won't license any of these. When I was in college I worked at the university book store apparel department. We wanted to buy t-shirts that said

The good - with a picture of a tigerhawk
The bad - with a picture of cy the cyclone
The ugly - with a picture of the Michigan football helmet

and they wouldn't license them, because they were too degrading. So we couldn't sell them.
 


I remember a few years back they were even talking about charging local florists a licensing fee for making homecoming corsages. Needless to say they dropped it after people flipped out on them - and rightfully so.
 




You can't use any players name. You can't use their names with the colors balack and gold. You can't associate their last names with anything football related or the likeness of a football player and anything Iowa hawkeyes. You can't use their numbers with any sort of hawkeye or hawk. You really can't use their pictures like you have. The university has people out at every home game looking out for non-licensedstuff at tailgates. Doesn't matter who printed it, they will find them too. They will find you and sue you if you are wearing this stuff at tailgates. Believe me, I worked in the athletic licensing dept. at college when I was there.
 




Look, here's what constitutes "copyright infringement."

(a) Criminal Infringement. —
(1) In general. — Any person who willfully infringes a copyright shall be punished as provided under section 2319 of title 18, if the infringement was committed —


(A) for purposes of commercial advantage or private financial gain;


Yes



(B) by the reproduction or distribution, including by electronic means, during any 180-day period, of 1 or more copies or phonorecords of 1 or more copyrighted works, which have a total retail value of more than $1,000;



Yes



(C) by the distribution of a work being prepared for commercial distribution, by making it available on a computer network accessible to members of the public, if such person knew or should have known that the work was intended for commercial distribution.


Yes


Technically you're breaking the law, but who cares
 


Nice lookin site Gameday! Can you get names and so forth sewn on the hats through this shop or just the hats?

Thanks

Again great looking site. I will spending some bucks there......
 




So I would be breaking the law if I wrote a player's name and number on the back of a white t-shirt and wore it to a game? Not that I plan on doing this, I'm just curious is all.
 


We can have names put on any of our over 300 styles of hats. We will also have ANF patches to sew on. We recommend putting the name on one side and ANF on the other side. Call me for help or email me with your needs. Ron
319-331-8590
gdi@mchsi.com
 


We have jerseys and shirts set up as jerseys that do not have the name or number on them. You can purchase them and then take them and have whatever name and number you wish added. The ONLY time we do a player's name and number on a jersey is when the player's family purchases them for personal use. They supply us with a letter authorizing those jerseys.
Any time you use a players name, number, or likeness on a shirt, you are asking for trouble.
We do NOT even supply footballs signed by the players for charitable fund raisers.
It is great to support the players, but we need to do it as a team.
 


pbrhawk said:
You can't use any players name. You can't use their names with the colors balack and gold. You can't associate their last names with anything football related or the likeness of a football player and anything Iowa hawkeyes. You can't use their numbers with any sort of hawkeye or hawk. You really can't use their pictures like you have. The university has people out at every home game looking out for non-licensedstuff at tailgates. Doesn't matter who printed it, they will find them too. They will find you and sue you if you are wearing this stuff at tailgates. Believe me, I worked in the athletic licensing dept. at college when I was there.
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So if I wore the similar McNutt shirt to a game, they would arrest me? I already have it, but have not worn it yet.

I just don't get it. What about the shirts that say "Stanzi the Manzi" that have been popular?
 


If you just wear a shirt you made & you aren't selling them, you won't get in any trouble. I know much about the law and various other lawyerings.
 


We are talking about using player's names for profit. Whether you sell them or get "donations", it is still wrong.
I can sell you a blank jersey and you can have whatever name and number you want put on it for your own personal use. Do not put a player's name and number and then resell it.
 


just the same if you do nfl players names etc...you wouldn't think about selling those shirts would you??
 


OK, OK. You guys win. To be clear, again, I was NOT trying to do anything to make any money here.

For those that have emailed me, I will not be making any shirts. I apologize.

I am glad Ron got yet another chance to pimp his products though because of my thread.
 


Just trying to add from my experience from working with Iowa licensing for 20 years.

We DO NOT use player's names, profanity(F#@#), or any unkind words toward the university.

We do tailgating t-shirts to replace the profanity t-shirts.

CYCLOWNS is about the nastiest thing we do.

You can be funny,make a point, and prode our opponents without getting dirty.

You can do a "Love it or Leave it" t-shirt without mentioning Stanzi.

I turn done hundreds of designs each year for not being appropriate. I do laugh my *** off at a lot of them, for you guys can be really funny and creative.
 


HAWKEYESTATE4ever said:
OK, OK. You guys win. To be clear, again, I was NOT trying to do anything to make any money here.

For those that have emailed me, I will not be making any shirts. I apologize.

I am glad Ron got yet another chance to pimp his products though because of my thread.
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again i didnt care if you made money on it i was just saying you might want to think twice about it :)

good decision on your part
 


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