It took Amaru less than 12 hours to put the lawyers on me...

[Dante]

Give me her number and I will discuss this over dinner with her. :thumb:

you either need glasses or a keg

 

[dizztro]

ain't that a bitch.

 

[Dave D]

Yes this is not Afenis fault. Its Dina the Dyke and her army of graverobbers, what is so sad about this is im not surprised... at all! And Rukas if she tries to sue you from using the word Tupac .. get a lawyer and im pretty sure you will win.

 

[Dante]

dina uses aim. feel free to holler at her sometime regarding your discontentm,ent with how the estate is being handled.

 

[ShadowSoulja]

haha tell me to shut up...why dont u get your own ideas and sell it...please buddy so u invest alot of money in to this site and u still have the free host google ads everywhere...just like some other cat said 2pac got pisssed at some one sellin his tape for a bootleg if he was alive he would have people goin after people like you who are tryin to sell his name...oh ya that comment about "Free Tupac" they probly already know its about her own son idiot...frankly i dont give 2 shits who you are Tupac 2pac same shit buddy now take it like a man and put Free Dante cuz hes gonna get his ass sued and in jail for BS like this...hmm...lets think now...you had 2pac'z face on ur shirts...they contact you about it...hmmmmm wut makes u think there gonna be that dumb to not realize u just took of his face and put his name when ur whole site is about 2pac :thumb:

now u shut up

 

[Hankaveli]

you either need glasses or a keg

she ain't all that hot, but she a older probably somewhat successful smart chick, could always use one in the stable. lol

I don't need a keg I need some Cubans and some Abstine.

 

[Dante]

now take it like a man and put Free Dante cuz hes gonna get his ass sued and in jail for BS like this

care to elaborate, dick? you lost me.

 

[Hituup]

I spoke to Dina Lapolt before. Shes a real bitch. She said she had nothing to do with the decisions regarding his music, but made money decisions and worked on things like the Tupac Amaru Shakur center.

 

[Killicit]

FFS read intellecutal copyright laws and understand, the basic form is straightward.. when there's one pure fan doing it for a good cause there's 100 bootlegger clowns doing the same with ill intent. to the eyes of the lawyers you're 101, its business, they could care less what we think. ppl sell T-shirts at the markets all the time, and they get away with it because the lawyers and those who try to prevent such things cant attend every market all the time. Von Dutch ripoffs are everywhere

 

[Ay-G]

yo Rukas, is there any way I can still buy that hoodie?

 

[Crunkadelic]

That's bullshit!There are a lot people selling T-shirts with Pac's face on it which are unofficial across the world...why just sueing one particular person?

There's a BIG difference between selling unofficial Tupac T-shirts in small swap meets across the world and on the internet.

In swap meets you sell them locally (obviously somewhere where the estate isn't at); on the internet, you sell them internationally, makign yourself known to the world. Like the Estate wont regularly sue a person selling a fake Pac shirts in a swap meet in, lets say, Dallas or Japan cause they wouldnt know. But on the internet, all they have to do is go to a (popular) website like this one and find out.

 

[SnakeWesker]

James Earl Jones, the voice of Darth Vader from Star Wars, said that he actually is not allowed to talk like Darth Vader in public, since LucasFilms owns the rights to it. If someone can own the rights to a voice, then it makes sense that someone could own the rights to a face.

 

[Ay-G]

James Earl Jones, the voice of Darth Vader from Star Wars, said that he actually is not allowed to talk like Darth Vader in public, since LucasFilm owns the rights to it. If someone can own the rights to a voice, then it makes sense that someone could own the rights to a face.

yup...same goes to the lady who does Bart Simpson's voice. She cant talk like that in public. Same reasons...

 

[PACISMAKAVELI]

I'm no expert, but i think if u just had pac's face, not name u could get away with it. I know she sued to have tupac's estate....which i think means that u cant use his name, product on anything....I'm sure if there is a loop hole somewhere, just keep lookin lol

 

[Killicit]

^^^ likeness will get you in the shit.. you can use images for anything as long as you alter it 40+% (cant remember) so that it isnt like the original.

 

[FATAL]

Theres probably a million or so solutions to this problem. Some will get you sued, some won't. The simplest solution I've come up with myself is quite frankly to just change the image. Personally I've never been a big fan of apparel with pac's face on it. I always thinks it looks rather cheesy in the end. My suggestion is that you go with something that scream 2pac, but isn't 2pac per se. For instance... the black and white logo at the top of the main 2pacboard page is an excellent start. It's not tupac, yet anyone in the know will know exactly who it is. Changing up the design of that type of print would get you some varience and yet keep Amaru off of yor back. Furthermore, I personally would like to see something with like a bandana tied in front like pacs hanging off o the letter "T" in tupac. And if you wanted to get further into it, hell even add dripping blood or something like that... fans of 2pac will know what the hell your referring to, and will "get it" and you won't have to deal with the hassles of using a likeness. (Which, yes is copyrightable.)

My last bit of advice for you though is to just be carefull... Your marketing these in america, the same country that allowed Paris Hilton to copyright the phrase "thats Hot". Keep that in mind, because if someone can copyright a spoken phrase commonly said millions of times prior to it's copyright, then you better believe just about any visual image can be copyrighted as well.

 

[ksoula]

I think the product would be a lot better and more popular if it were Free Tupac shirts instead of FreeTupac shirts.

 

[nail_polish]

BLAME HER

she looks like a combination of Don Johnson and a Bratz doll

my friend she said u should just get a 2pac lookalike, like that person from smile video or that master p video, and just put free tupac next to his image...that ways afeni cant sue you for words and face...

 

[bimi]

she looks like a combination of Don Johnson and a Bratz doll

my friend she said u should just get a 2pac lookalike, like that person from smile video or that master p video, and just put free tupac next to his image...that ways afeni cant sue you for words and face...

:thumb: :thumb:

 

[Rock]

Dina Lapolt is a dirty whore :thumb: