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selling on etsy by Mariska 11 years ago

Dear fellow knotters,

Today I get an e-mail of Etsy.They removed my angry birds bracelet that I made.
it goes on pattern Alpha pattern A42636 of moony.So for the sellers on etsy,you've all been warned.

RE: selling on etsy by Pitash 11 years ago

Did they tell you why?

RE: selling on etsy by Mariska 11 years ago

yes Pitash,it was about the copyright of angry birds,but also others.The one who send a message to etsy was from a organisation against piracy.So if some of you placed pokemon,angry birds or whatever on the shop,you're be warned by now,because they can take this of if they find you.

Our foz says that's ridicilous and yes it is.We don't want to harm anybody.

RE: selling on etsy by Pitash 11 years ago

No, we don't... Each of us only has good intentions! What can and should we do about it? I'm looking to open a shop, but I don't want all of my previous bracelets to not be allowed.

RE: selling on etsy by Alicat 11 years ago

I think as long as you mention that you do not own the character, it can't be taken away from your shop. they just don't want you crediting yourself for copyrighted things, such as pokemon, angry birds, etc.

RE: selling on etsy by Pitash 11 years ago

I hope not. I would hate for us all to have to take down our bracelets :/ Thanks for the heads up!

RE: selling on etsy by KaraQ 11 years ago

So are u guys not selling bracelets anymore???

RE: selling on etsy by Co2 11 years ago

maybe you can go around it by saying that you could make these sorts of characters if requested? but yeah, pokemon and stuff is a big copyright thing ;; I made an RPG and couldn't charge to keep my servers up -- had to get my money through advertisements to expand it/keep it going. If you use something from like a TV show and etc. without permission to do so while collecting money from it, is pretty much copyright infringement. In my RPG I had to include the origional company's copyright info, make a disclaimer for it and everything lol. Even doing so though, I still couldn't charge or ask for donations. I ended up closing my RPG cause I couldn't keep expanding it and paying for it's bandwidth usage from the amounts received from adsense.

RE: selling on etsy by Pitash 11 years ago

Goodness. What do you suggest we do, then?

RE: selling on etsy by Co2 11 years ago

just say you can make them for special requests probably the best way, and perhaps add little pieces of them into your header so people can somewhat see that you're able to.

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