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I’ve gotten a lot (note: more than four) questions asking how much I’m going to be selling P-Body hoodies for and I guess I need to clarify that I’m not selling them for anything because I’m only making one! It’s more of a “hoodie costume” than anything. Even if I could figure out a way to mass-produce them in a way that doesn’t look like they were made with fabric paint while we watched Howl’s Moving Castle and gossiped about the internet, we wouldn’t sell them! We don’t own the rights to P-Body and ATLAS and selling merch based off of them is not only immoral, but illegal! I know a lot of people make money off fanart at conventions, and a lot of companies don’t care that you’re selling Pikachu shrinky-dinks, but it’s still immoral! People aren’t buying your merchandise because they like YOU, they’re buying it because OH, A THING I RECOGNIZE. It’s easy money, but it’s dirty money. A lot of big companies don’t care, and a lot of people can make a living that way, but I will not be one of those people. The same laws that protect me from people creating and selling bootleg Skin Deep merchandise are the same laws that protect big nameless corporations from the same thing. Just because they might not care or might not catch you doesn’t mean that it’s not stil immoral to do! It’s a matter of principles, I suppose.

I’ve gotten a lot (note: more than four) questions asking how much I’m going to be selling P-Body hoodies for and I guess I need to clarify that I’m not selling them for anything because I’m only making one! It’s more of a “hoodie costume” than anything.

Even if I could figure out a way to mass-produce them in a way that doesn’t look like they were made with fabric paint while we watched Howl’s Moving Castle and gossiped about the internet, we wouldn’t sell them! We don’t own the rights to P-Body and ATLAS and selling merch based off of them is not only immoral, but illegal!

I know a lot of people make money off fanart at conventions, and a lot of companies don’t care that you’re selling Pikachu shrinky-dinks, but it’s still immoral! People aren’t buying your merchandise because they like YOU, they’re buying it because OH, A THING I RECOGNIZE. It’s easy money, but it’s dirty money.

A lot of big companies don’t care, and a lot of people can make a living that way, but I will not be one of those people. The same laws that protect me from people creating and selling bootleg Skin Deep merchandise are the same laws that protect big nameless corporations from the same thing. Just because they might not care or might not catch you doesn’t mean that it’s not stil immoral to do! It’s a matter of principles, I suppose.

10 months ago

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  3. antheawest said: Ah fair enough! Well please post picture when you have the finished hoody, I love to see it :D And be imessly jealus >:3
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    Good on ya, Kory! Principles
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