Calendar Update
Posted: Wed Aug 19, 2015 5:40 pm
The MADh Vinyl 2016 calendar, Motivational Vinyl, is NOT for sale in the MADh Vinyl Shop at Zazzle.com!
Why, you might ask, is such a money making gold mine NOT being sold?
Zazzle has refused to print the calendar. Their reason was as follows:
We would love to produce all designs submitted, however Zazzle prides itself on upholding all intellectual property rights as well as our own content guidelines and copyright policies.
In this instance, your order contained a calendar which had images of Star Wars fan art, which Zazzle is not currently licensed to produce on merchandise.
The 2016 MV calendar is an 18 month calendar (July 2015-December 2016) with the six 2015 months being take offs of Star Wars movie poster images. In the 2014 calendar one of the months had a background that was two actual Star Wars movie posters. So why was it okay in December 2013 and not now? What has changed?
The Mouse now owns Star Wars and the Mouse zealously protects its properties. Zazzle has a license agreement with the Mouse to print certain images of Mouse related properties. The Mouse has no doubt made it clear to Zazzle that they can only print approved images, fair usage and/or parody be damned. Zazzle's agreement with the Mouse is much more important than one (or many) little authors.
In any case another printer not hamstrung by the Mouse has been found. The calendars are actually cheaper than the Zazzle price and the paper stock is heavier. The down side is the images must be uploaded for every order, therefore there isn't a store to go to for you to order a calendar when ever you like. There is no volume discount so I will place an order when ever anyone wants a calendar. Just PM me for the details.
Meanwhile here are thumbnails of the forbidden images.
The posters parodied are (L-R, T-B):
The Phantom Menace teaser
Attack of the Clones teaser
Revenge of the Sith teaser
A New Hope 1980 re-release
The Empire Strikes Back one sheet style A
Return of the Jedi teaser
The 12 months of 2016 consist of motivational moments as only the MADh Vinyl girls (and guys) can provide.
Why, you might ask, is such a money making gold mine NOT being sold?
Zazzle has refused to print the calendar. Their reason was as follows:
We would love to produce all designs submitted, however Zazzle prides itself on upholding all intellectual property rights as well as our own content guidelines and copyright policies.
In this instance, your order contained a calendar which had images of Star Wars fan art, which Zazzle is not currently licensed to produce on merchandise.
The 2016 MV calendar is an 18 month calendar (July 2015-December 2016) with the six 2015 months being take offs of Star Wars movie poster images. In the 2014 calendar one of the months had a background that was two actual Star Wars movie posters. So why was it okay in December 2013 and not now? What has changed?
The Mouse now owns Star Wars and the Mouse zealously protects its properties. Zazzle has a license agreement with the Mouse to print certain images of Mouse related properties. The Mouse has no doubt made it clear to Zazzle that they can only print approved images, fair usage and/or parody be damned. Zazzle's agreement with the Mouse is much more important than one (or many) little authors.
In any case another printer not hamstrung by the Mouse has been found. The calendars are actually cheaper than the Zazzle price and the paper stock is heavier. The down side is the images must be uploaded for every order, therefore there isn't a store to go to for you to order a calendar when ever you like. There is no volume discount so I will place an order when ever anyone wants a calendar. Just PM me for the details.
Meanwhile here are thumbnails of the forbidden images.
The posters parodied are (L-R, T-B):
The Phantom Menace teaser
Attack of the Clones teaser
Revenge of the Sith teaser
A New Hope 1980 re-release
The Empire Strikes Back one sheet style A
Return of the Jedi teaser
The 12 months of 2016 consist of motivational moments as only the MADh Vinyl girls (and guys) can provide.