EVILFACE
Super Freak
Submit your masks to the company and gain a license to produce the mask for sale to others. Simple.
Well, yeah, they want profits from people collecting their character.
I'm sure if you make your own mask, or a one (single copy) mask, they'd leave you alone, but you wouldnt be able to sell it worldwide on Ebay. I don't think they'd go to a con and bother someone with a table selling one mask.
And they'd still be within their rights, but it wouldnt be worth the cost. Selling on a website or ebay is worldwide and more visible than some dude in toledo with a folding table.
You know what's funny about all this...I or you can buy this type of stuff and make a huge collection of it, and no one says anything about those of us who buy said rarities as collectors. But the sellers of said items are demonized.
It seems to me that companies would be better off considering this free market research and give the people doing the custom work job opportunities. At the very least for showing them that the collectors will buy said product.
I understand its still copyright/trademark infringement, etc. Legally its wrong. but when the talent pool is outdoing the licensed offerings, you don't fight them...you hire them. Then you have the best of both worlds. Bowen did it with the sculptors in the garage kit hobby, and so has Sideshow.
why not just call it a shatner mask? or did i miss something?? this is a bit technical for me lol.
That's what I'd do. The likelihood of anyone trying to sue you over that would be laughable because in the end, that's what it is, and nobody but the original mask maker and possibly Shatner himself, would have the rights to it.
thats what i was thinking reading through this thread. it seems there is a gray area in regards to the shatner mask. i would exploit it. the rep for the company seems to think that they are 100% correct to report all of these auctions. did any company legally produce myers' masks?? if they did and i sell one would i get in trouble? thats where i am confused tooo.
Unfortunately, they're lying bastards. What they'd do is, since they own the rights to the movie (not the mask), they'll use that as a means to threaten you with a lawsuit. Then, if that didn't work and money permitting, they'd attempt to sue you and keep it tied up in litigation until you could no longer afford legal fees.
I see the same ^^^^ every day in the airsoft as well as the real steel community. Cybergun tried to sue every retailer who carried a gun called AK-47 because they claimed they owned the rights to it when in fact all they owned was the "Kalashnikov" name, not the assault rifle's model number. Colt tried it with Bushmaster over the use of the term "M16" until it was finally determined that that designation is a military designation and unless the military was suing for improper use of the designation, Colt's case had no merit. But this was after years of litigation and millions of dollars in court fees.
thanks for the well written reply. thats some interesting stuff...this trademark talk is foreign to me. that makes sense for the big corps. they can sell all of their licensed ^^^^ while you are in court slowly bleeding to death. if i had some of the original shatner masks and decided to get rid of them i would be pissed. its not like i am making them, just trying to sell my collection. those guys are getting shutdown on ebay too. thats just gay
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