I recently had a really unbelievable copyright related experience.
I designed a logo for a t-shirt that I ordered for my girlfriend as a birthday present.
I ordered from cafepress.com and they sent me a letter in which they said this image is a copyright infringement and they won't accept any orders with this image etc.
The logo was the well known "intel inside" logo with words exchanged for "princess inside" (my girlfriend really liked this idea
).
I tried to reason with cafepress and sent them multiple letters saying that this is really for my personal use, I'm ordering only one t-shirt, I haven't put it on sale on cafepress (they said something about distributing it on cafepress.com, but I sure didn't put this logo for sale there)
So after exchanging several letters I understood that their policy is - if you have anything copyrighted - they won't touch it. No way.
Strangely though the order went through. Probably they had already printed it before anyone noticed the "infringement" going on.
So what next - photo labs refusing to print images that have any copyrighted logo/shape/name/object on them? Someone wearing Nike, driving Volvo, eating BigMac, drinking Coca-Cola - sorry no prints.
Better shoot with fas primes only to get shallow DOF, less items visible then
