His shirts cannot use the likeness of commercial trademarks or public likenesses. If he uses them in a magazine (like a one page parody), then he is engaged in first ammenment speech. Here he's operating a commercial venture (and he'd better be paying his taxes).
Since he's engaged in commercial transactions, it's not speech. He's marketing a product which could have the FOX logo (which is trademarked) or Ann Coulter's picture. Is he even licensing the photos he plans to use on his shirts? This is why the first approach to these bottom feeders is "Cease and decist". He chose to broadcast his predicament and sell more shirts as a response (which shows willful disregard for the cease and decist notice).
Of course his site claims copyright on all of "his" works.
He also sells some authorized Ted Rall merchandise.
Remember that even Rush said that the EIB "university" shirts were unauthorized. It's not just about "squashing" free speech, it's about protecting copyrights, trademarks, and likenesses.
His bandwidth is strained and I found his site and images to be painfully slow loading.
Of course his site claims copyright on all of "his" works.He's going to run into trouble there, as well, because it can be proven in seconds that neither the phrase "Faux News" nor the taglines "We Distort, You Comply" or "Pentagon News Network," were invented by Mr. Luckett or anyone else on his staff. Google shows that "Pentagon News Network" has been around since at least January 1991. "Faux News" goes back at least to August 2000 (and probably earlier; I think I messed up that search). "We Distort, You Comply"? November 2000.
Attempting to copyright ideas in the public domain is not very smart.
Agitproperties is COMPLETELY SCREWED, and deservedly so.
By the way, why does Agitproperties not offer an MSNBC t-shirt? Could it be because they already tried, MSNBC sent them a cease-and-desist, and Agitproperties totally caved in because they knew nobody would support them in a fight against a LIBERAL news network?
WHERE IS THE MSNBC T-SHIRT, MR. LUCKETT?