elizalavelle: (Kaylee the hell with that)
Elizabeth Jamieson ([personal profile] elizalavelle) wrote2006-09-16 09:17 am

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I'm sure most Firefly/Serenity fans have seen this already but if you haven't:

Dear fellow Browncoats-

It has been my pleasure to make and distribute the Jayne repro shirts to many of you literally the world over. Through great organizations such as the So Cal, San Fran, and South East Browcoats, our shirts have been used to raise money for charity at Comic Con and Wonder Con for the past two years . Today, I recieved a letter from Fox Corporate "asking" us to stop producing anything related in any way to the Firefly Series. We do not compete with them for any business, since the only thing Firefly related they sell as far as I can tell the DVD set. It is my hope to contact Fox to try to work out some sort of licencing agreement with them, but since they apparantly care nothing for the series or the fans that they abandoned, I am sceptical that they will allow us to continue in any fashion- if anyone knows of any other contacts that I can use to help negotiate with them, it would be appreciated, otherwise, I will go back to other business- They have given me 2 weeks to cease production, so if anyone is needing anything, please let me know as soon as possible...........

Sincerely,

Alex bluesunshirts.com




Have I mentioned in a while that I really really dispise the Fox Network? No? Well yeah, I freaking do! If you don't support a show, literally force it off of the air, and then already make tons of money from the Firefly DVDs (those things still hit the best sellers list occasionally, that's huge for a show that's been off the air for so long!) why the fuck do you need to further put down the fans? In all honesty I can sort of see where the copywright boundry has been crossed BUT it's a slim line when one looks at the products, they're not like Firefly logos everywhere.

Ugh.

Hate Fox.

[identity profile] amy_vic.livejournal.com 2006-09-16 05:57 pm (UTC)(link)
...well, crap. There goes my brilliant plan of whipping up Firefly-esque shirts at work on the weekends. I'll get sued. *pouts*

[identity profile] elizalavelle.livejournal.com 2006-09-16 11:33 pm (UTC)(link)
This is the online site I've heard of thus far who's being shut down... ergo I think most fan shirts are safe :)