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Posted on Apr 17, 2009

Twitshirt

Cameron and Neven have voiced displeasure with and "lost respect for" Airbag Industries and their newest venture, Twitshirt.

They both claim that Twitshirt is infringing on your copyright and intellectual property by letting users put Twitter messages on a shirt for you.

One flaw I see in Cameron & Neven's argument is that the shirts are being attributed. Twitshirt is not pretending that the Twitter message is theirs. They are not stealing your message. They are basically RT (re-tweeting) your message on a t-shirt.

The key is attribution. There are like 7 million design or CSS galleries on the web that take a screenshot of nice work and attribute that work and then post it on their sites that may be making a profit with advertisement. Is this copyright infringement? No.

On top of giving Twitter users attribution they give you a cut of the profit if someone uses your Twitter message. If you still do not like all this, you can even opt-out of Twitshirt and block people from celebrating your wittiness on their chests.

If I put a quote and attribute that quote on a shirt, I do not see how that is stealing. If I were to put a quote on a shirt and told people I said it, then that would be stealing. If I were to take a screenshot of a beautiful website and say, look at this awesome website Joe made and offered a link to the original work, I do not see how this is stealing. If I take a screenshot and put that work in my portfolio and say it was mine, than that would be stealing.

Even though I disagree with Cameron and Neven's argument against TwitShirt, I love their work and hope a healthy dialogue on this issue happens.

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