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Deviousness `ChewedKandi has certainly gone out of her way to keep the vector community on the right path. Always making sure that her talents are infinitely scalable, Sharon has put her bezier curves to excellent use, and firmly anchored herself as an inspirational leader. We're absolutely delighted to bestow the Deviousness Award for June 2013 to `ChewedKandi. Congratulations, Sharon! Read More
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Ha! Just thought of a parody: My Little Abominations. They would all look like the official plushes!
but - do you really think this all (which you mentioned on your kickstarter page in a comment) prevents you from getting in trouble concerning hasbro's/ms. faust's copyrights/licenses? don't know much about US-law as I'm from Germany, but here you would get severe problems with plagiarism ordering such a big amount of plushies which are definitely recognizable as a kind of reproduction of a licensed character. I would be VERY careful if I were in your place with something big like that :/
Most the time I have to deal with patents. For an example of case dealt with. A company was selling a screen that you Velcro onto the seat in a car. Someone actually was able to sue this company for "stealing" the idea of... Using Velcro to secure Anything to the seat in a car... They are called utility patents. I know this is an example of patents and not copyright, it's just copyright is even more difficult to explain when it comes to products surrounding art.
If I was to keep doing this sort of thing (which I'm not), there would definitely be a legal attempt. Most legal allegations are intimidation attempts though, and any real suit by them at this point would cost them a lot of money with 0 gain. In a sick sort of the way, the only way I could make money on this project, is if they DID file a lawsuit and I won. There are more than enough lawyers around me willing to take this case for nothing unless I win.
Mind you, the only purpose of this project was for me to give the community a chance for a plush that wasn't sub-demonic (that's why it's so cheap, I have no profit margin). I actually got in contact with their licensing department since I wanted to give back to help fund future developments. However I couldn't afford the $40,000 minimum for royalties. Also I found out that they had just a week earlier, given sole rights to the "Prince of Cheapness", Funrise Toys (Those heathens ruined Tonka).
Note: I waited till after they unleashed their... things, before I took anymore steps.