Hi everyone,
I want to submit parodies of Star Wars properties, but don’t have permission to do so or license. Does shirt.woot have a license to sell these third-party properties?
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No shirt.woot does not have any licenses for any properties.
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Hi again,
There are so many Star Wars related designs on Shirt.woot (derby). Do all the artists therefore have permission to use Star Wars material? Or are the designs also parodies, which can come under fair use law?
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Thank you for respecting royalties & even asking the question.
You’re a true artist.
Any parody or fan art is submitted at your own risk. We do curate through a lens of ‘fair use’, but we won’t fight for it. If we get a takedown request we will take designs down.
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“Woot! We don’t care about Copywrite or Trademark Infringement, or Use of Someone’s Likeness if We Can Make Money. Once We are Caught, Then We Toss You Under the Bus” —new Woot! tagline OR “F@ck Artists & Their Intellectual Properties”
Gee! I wonder where they learned lying & stealing other people’s work & taking credit while making $$$$ comes from? 
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So, if I take your design, of course without permission, credit and royalty; and then sell such merchandise with that design is that “fair use”? You’ll be pissed, but is that fair use? How about create your own, instead of relying on someone’s else’s work as yours. Not being contentious, but altering the view. Just an idea.
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We try to strike a balance with what our artists want to draw, what our customers want to buy and what is fair to sell. We are also trying to keep the assortment original, not AI art, and not direct copies of other artists.
We will not fight a takedown request, because a legal fight is not good for anyone, and we don’t want any further action taken against the artists. We also respect artists requests to take down their own designs. We don’t ask a lot of questions when our artists agree to our T&Cs that say they have the rights/permissions to the work they are submitting.
Artists earn royalties for every design they sell on our site, with the ability to earn larger payouts for designs selected as dailies.
Whether art is considered “fair use” is pretty obscure, and many teams have interpreted that differently over Shirt’s lifetime.
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When you say “artist” you are referring to the artists that submit their artwork to you. The problem is if they are basing their “art” off of someone else’s work or likeness.
Woot! Is in the business to sell & has attorneys to deal with this. Your average shirt artist isn’t having an attorney look over T&C before agreeing.
And FWIW I wasn’t talking about royalties from “Woot! Shirt artists”, but artists in general. Some artists are forbidden to share their likeness without compensation.
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