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Power to the mickeys ♠ Le pouvoir aux mickeys

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Where are the anti-globos when you need them?
I've just been crushed by the powerful-big-banks-investment-funds-transnational-groups-and-other-owners-of-big-capital complex, so I guess I should give up with this so called hellish "neoliberalism" thingy and join ATTAC at once, since I'm being a much oppressed, repressed and alienated proletariat here.
Dear CafePress Storeowner,

(...)
The use of a copyrighted name, image, logo such as that of Che G &ickey Mouse can constitute both copyright and trademark infringement.
Dang! I didn't know that Che G was copyrighted. I swear.

Darn vicious avaricious powerful big banks, investment funds, transnational groups and other owners of big capital. They have no respect.

Anyway, I made this one by myself and consequently, the DVGPBBIFTGAOOBC can go F themselves and secondarily get a shorter acronym because neoliberalism kills and eats the little children, because ATTAC says so and therefore I don't see why I should pay the piper and stop selling my tees.

As for Mickey Mouse, I told my contact at Cafe Press, one cordial Abdul Popal who sounds genuinely willing to treat that issue with fairness on both side, that I don't see where and when exactly Disney's sympathetic anthropomorphous character was involved.

I swear.

My advocacy point is that, beside the catch line "El Che Gets the mickey (taken)"...
Merriam-Webster's Unabridged Dictionary:

" ♠ Main Entry: take*
Function: verb

(...)
take the mickey chiefly Britain : JOKE, KID
֖take the mickey out of chiefly Britain : to make fun of : TEASE

♠ Main Entry: mickey mouse

Function: adjective
Usage: usually capitalized both Ms

1 : lacking importance : INSIGNIFICANT (switch to Mickey Mouse courses, where you don't work too hard Willie Cager)
2 : annoyingly petty (Mickey Mouse regulations)
3 : being or performing insipid or corny popular music

♠ Main Entry: mickey mouse
Function:noun
Usage:usually capitalized both Ms

: something that is Mickey Mouse (eliminating the Mickey Mouse from the soldier's routine L.J.Binder) »
... There's nothing else on my design but the mockery of a communist murderer irrelevant pop icon.

Wearing an inflated montera.

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Où sont les anti-mondialisation quand on a besoin d'eux ?
Je viens juste d'être broyé par le complexe des puissants-gros-groupes-bancaires-fonds-d'investissements-multinationales-et-autres-possédants-du-gros-capital, et j'imagine que je ferai mieux de laisser tomber ce truc de l'infernal "neoliberalisme" et joindre ATTAC sans plus attendre car je suis un prolétariat vachement opprimé, réprimé et aliéné là.
Cher commerçant CafePress,

(...)
L'utilisation d'un nom, image, logo sous copyright tels ceux de Che G &ickey Mouse peut constituer un infraction à la fois au copyright et aux marques déposées.
Bigre! J'ignorais que Che G était sous copyright. Je le jure.

Damnés puissants gros groupes bancaires, fonds d'investissements, multinationales et autres possédants du gros capital vicieux et avaricieux. Ils ne respectent rien.

Quoi qu'il en soit, c'est moi même tout seul qui ai fait celui là. Conséquemment, les DPGGBFIMAPGCVA peuvent aller se FF et accessoirement se trouver un acronyme plus court car le néolibéralisme tue et mange les petits enfants ainsi qu'ATTAC l'a dit et donc je ne vois pas pourquoi je devrai payer les pots cassés et cesser de vendre mes t-shirts.

En ce qui concerne Mickey Mouse, j'ai signalé à mon contact chez Cafe Press, le cordial et apparemment sincèrement décidé à traiter équitablement cette question, Abdul Popal, que je ne voyais absolument pas quand et comment le sympathique personnage anthropomorphe de Disney était impliqué.

Je le jure.

Mon plaidoyer argument est que, au-delà de l'accroche "El Che Gets the mickey (taken)"...
Dictionnaire Complet Merriam-Webster:

" ♠ Entrée principale :take*
Fonction : verbe

(...)
take the mickey principalement Grande Bretagne : BLAGUER, PLAISANTER
֖take the mickey out of principalement Grande Bretagne : se moquer de : TAQUINER

♠ Entrée principale :mickey mouse

Fonction : adjectif
Usage : généralement deux M en majuscules

1 : qui manque d'importance : INSIGNIFIANT (bascule sur l'option Mickey Mouse, où on ne travaille pas trop dur Willie Cager)
2 : importunément mesquin (un règlement Mickey Mouse)
3 : être insipide ou jouer une sotte et insipide musiquette populaire

♠ Main Entry : mickey mouse
Fonction : nom
Usage : généralement deux M en majuscules

: quelque chose qui est Mickey Mouse (supprimer le Mickey Mouse de la routine du soldat L.J.Binder) »
... Il n'est rien d'autre dans cette création graphique que la moquerie d'un assassin communiste d'une icône pop surannée.

Qui porte une montera hypertrophiée.

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200 - Carine

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I was curious to know who could have possibly asked for copyright protection... Social justice, si. Vodka advertisements, no.
The Cuban photographer who snapped a famous picture of Che Guevara has won copyright protection for the image from a British court as part of a financial settlement with companies that had used it in an ad for Smirnoff vodka, his lawyers said Friday.
Throughout the years, photographer Alberto Diaz Gutierrez, who goes by the professional name Alberto Korda, never made any money from the use of his famous picture. His motives in bringing the lawsuit were not financial, he said.
"As a supporter of the ideals for which Che Guevara died, I am not averse to its reproduction by those who wish to propagate his memory and the cause of social justice throughout the world," he said. "But I am categorically against the exploitation of Che's image for the promotion of products such as alcohol, or for any purpose that denigrates the reputation of Che."
The article: http://edition.cnn.com/2000/WORLD/europe/09/16/cheguevaraphoto.ap/ Ain't this surrealistic? Sorry :(

201 - Elizabeth

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I think your idea was fantastic, but am not surprised you received such notice about Mickey and Che. If I drive about an hour from my home everything under the sun is in the shape of mouse ears. As for Che - I saw someone driving with a Che picture sticker on the rear of their car a couple of months ago. I thought... hmmm someone from the Ayn Rand Institute needs to come up with a good sticker I can add to my vehicle if I want as well. Once again, good try! Keep up the use of an excellent imagination! :)

202 - the dissident frogman

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Carine: interesting anyway. That said: - My "Che" is different from Mr Gutierrez's "Che". - Even if it wasn't and although I wouldn't deny Mr Gutierrez's rights on his own work... Geez, Guevara was nothing but an international terrorist (Cuba, Algeria, Congo - Hello Kabila - Bolivia...), child killer (among his own troop of guerillas, 1956 if I'm not mistaking), he is the one (not Castro, at least according to the infamous Regis Debray) who "invented" the "corrective work camps" (that is "forced labor" in any decent person's language) in 1960, Guanaha peninsula, but also totally ruined Cuba's Central Bank (Communist specialty: give the ministry of economy to an economy ignoramus), despised money BUT lived in La Havana's posh neighborhood, etc, etc... No matter what the international Communist propaganda tried to feed us with. So I have a hard time believing that Mr Gutierrez would have any other reason - besides ideology - to "defend" his rights over El Fascist's face.
Time to take sides

203 - LeP

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CafePress sent me an e-mail telling me my order had shipped. So I shall get it (I cross my fingers). Is there any chance they sell it again ? If not, my T-shirt's gonna be a collector! (and, of course, I'll be sad no one else can get it anymore, but, you know, I'm an incorrigible individualist...)

204 - the dissident frogman

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  • the dissident frogman France

I confirm. Extremely limited serie, less than ten. Keep it in formaldehyde solution or something. And in a vault somewhere in Swiss. There aren't many and there won't be any other. Unless somebody steals the source file from me and goes black market, of course.
Time to take sides

205 - the dissident frogman

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Yuk Yuk Yuk (That's Goofy chortling) Go to www.cafepress.com Click "Go Shopping" Try the new beta search with... say... "Guevara" I do agree with this one's massage for instance (No Che!) but this: AIBFB Revolutionshop An (apparently) German shop when you can get T-Shirts and teddy Bear "I love Osama" alongside "Roter Oktober" (Red October in German if I'm not mistaking) mousepads? And you've got to love the fact that a search with "Guevara" sends back a "Palestinian Flag - Anti Israel Store"... After all, Cubans and Palestinians had a great deal of "Fun" murdering around in Nicaragua with the Sandinistas...
Time to take sides

206 - Carine

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OH MY GOD! They promote hatred but they're having a problem with a possible copyright infringement about a murderer's pic?!? Among other trendy tee-shirts I noticed these days on several Parisians: red tee-shirts with, you guessed right, the hammer and sickle and C.C.C.P. written on it... All of this stupidity is enough to drive me to despair.

207 - the dissident frogman

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I'm not that surprised. There's also a big laudatory exhibition dedicated to El Che, organized by Paris town hall, at this very moment. It does not drive me to despair though. One day, these history-retarded people will get what they apparently worship in a so inconsistent manner. That day, as far as I'll have the people I care for - yeah, that includes you Carine ;) - and myself safe abroad, I'll take great pleasure in turning back and laugh at France. If not abroad, the remaining option will be "rifle and resistance" I guess.
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208 - Cliff

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they shouldnt have copyright problem with such a shirt, it falls into parody since your not copying the exact che the commie bastard image or the whole of mickey mouse earse then its parody and legal

209 - Cinders

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I have always lived uncomfortably close to the original "Land of THE MOUSE - Happiest Place On Earth - Just Hand Us Your Wallet On The Way In - Oh, and Your Soul, Too" amusement park, and I am not at all surprised about their objection. Just surprised that it took longer than a nanosecond to arrive. After all, you said nothing about their "cut" and it is ALL ABOUT PROFIT! See the error of your ways and offer to cough up 87% on the gross, and maybe they will play ball.