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[elizalavelle]

I am so unimpressed with Universal's recent crackdown on fan merchandise. If they were selling the same sort of products or ANY products really I'd say they have a case but the things I saw... the fans were not overstepping any bounds, I'd compare their products to official stuff in the same way I'd compare fanfic to actual scripts (good fanfic, but nontheless, clearly not official.) One person is being asked (and I use that term loosely) for almost $9000 in retroactive fees, Black Market Beagles is shutting down just in case (mental note make order tonight) and it's just all kinds of not good.

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[elizalavelle.livejournal.com]

I wish this would at least mean that Universal was, oh I don't know, planning in selling more merch themselves (although after this I don't want to buy anything from them) but they don't. The reason the fans made all of these products in the first place is because Universal didn't! grrrr.

[elizalavelle.livejournal.com]

I totally get that big corporations don't really care about the fans as long as they make a lot of money off of them. That's their bottom line. However knowing that is a different than from accepting it. I just hate that type of buisness attitude.

[elizalavelle.livejournal.com]

Thanks, that's one of mine, you can find it over at rage_my_darling I have I think a total of 3 Mean Girls icon posts made there :)