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perladivenezia:

interviewed-the-vampire:

BUT THINK ABOUT IT

Vampire Lestat concert tees for all.

And think of the tacky shit we can do. Like I’m talking tacky in the best and most shameless way possible. Honestly this all needs to happen

“On Wednesdays we wear red velvet”

Night Island shirts/mugs/keyrings/ touristy shit.

Shirts that say “Gorgeous Fiend” and “Team Lestat”

//“You can pretend it’s wine” on a mug

“Devil’s minion” “Paint me with black wings” “No made by human hands” (or however that quote was) on T-shirts

Also “Blood wife” and “Blood husband” towels

#AGREES AGGRESSIVELY

^Something like this? Hmmmm? by remarried

A quick search yields lots of bland or bad VC merch, probably unauthorized (hit the jump for it, but be warned, it’s not all that tasteful):

Seguir leyendo

//Ohhh the “Chateau the Lioncourt” one it’s nice… quite expensive too…

Personally, I believe that if there will be a time to make fandom merch is now. AR attitude towards the fandom has been more laid-back lately, ~~probably because she is writing VC books again and she needs a fandom to sell them to, so as long as she is still interested in sell books it’s unlikely she will send her attorneys to sue people.~~ But I can’t blame anyone who is suspicious of course. One way to go around the law is thinking of merch with more vague references, and so less susceptible to copyright laws. For instance:

“My sugar daddy is a vampire” or “looking for a vampire sugar daddy”
“Palazzo’s Boy”
(random really big roman number) Great Family annual meeting
Talamasca corporative t-shirts and polos
Talamasca cricket team and polo team shirts
“3rth Great Burning” commemorative t-shirt. ~~Trinity Gate~~, New york.

I believe anyone in the fandom would get the references and still there are no characters names or actual quotes from the books and so no copyright infringement.

^Excellent points, I think all that would be acceptable!

VC Merch

July 19, 2015 iwantmyiwtv Leave a comment

perladivenezia:

interviewed-the-vampire:

BUT THINK ABOUT IT

Vampire Lestat concert tees for all.

And think of the tacky shit we can do. Like I’m talking tacky in the best and most shameless way possible. Honestly this all needs to happen

“On Wednesdays we wear red velvet”

Night Island shirts/mugs/keyrings/ touristy shit.

Shirts that say “Gorgeous Fiend” and “Team Lestat”

//“You can pretend it’s wine” on a mug

“Devil’s minion” “Paint me with black wings” “No made by human hands” (or however that quote was) on T-shirts

Also “Blood wife” and “Blood husband” towels

#AGREES AGGRESSIVELY

^Something like this? Hmmmm? by remarried

A quick search yields lots of bland or bad VC merch, probably unauthorized (hit the jump for it, but be warned, it’s not all that tasteful):

[zazzle.com]

[redbubble.com]

^A baby bodysuit

[cafepress.com] saying “I would BLEED for Lestat” ?? Gross. And yet, it’s for sale, $19.99. Does anyone really want their baby offering itself to bleed for Lestat?? Pretty sure he wouldn’t approve ~~he did eat a baby once but that was a very awkward moment and wayyyy in the past~~.

The fact that such tasteless things as these exist, and are for sale, makes me think AR doesn’t know (or doesn’t care?) about them.

OR, since “Lestat” is an actual name (it actually did exist before AR used it), it’s not under copyright protection in the way that “Sherlock Holmes” or “Batman” is, being completely original creations. I’ve done alot of research on this and the best answer I can find is that it would depend on whether AR chose to pursue someone for doing it, and whether the courts would decide whether the fanworks were infringing (detrimental) to her fictional character and/or sales of the novels themselves.

If anything, I feel like fanworks would promote her series and the courts would find in favor of the fanartists on this matter.

Use your own judgment. I would LOVE to make and promote VC merch, but IT IS treading on thin ice to do so.