Well, as some of you may know if you tried to follow the link, my Real Che T-shirt design was pulled from Zazzle, at the request of these guys:
http://cheguevarawholesale.com/
Who claim to be the only people who can market any goods based on the iconic Alberto Korda photograph. This IP claim is, of course, total bollocks. As Wikimedia (my source for the photograph) will inform you, based on the research they did, and as a modicum of independent research will confirm, said image is in the public domain in the US and most elsewheres, for a variety of legal reasons including that, well, Communist Cuba, like most Communist regimes, wasn't all that keen on having evil capitalist copyright laws in the first place.
So, basically, they got it pulled using a bogus, fraudulent, downright in-your-face lie of an IP claim. Isn't that just the kind of lousy, low-down, sneaking, underhanded trick you expect of a bunch of - since they're selling merchandise with said image - hypocritical, stinking, Commie scum?
Well, it's the kind of thing I expect, anyway. Never could stand competition or a free market in ideas, your average Commie. Never will, either.
(I don't blame Zazzle at all, in any of this, by the way. While I'm still appealing, I don't really expect to get much of a result - but then, it's not their job to go to the mattresses for me in legal wrangling with damn Commies, so I don't expect them to. I can respect their desire to stay free of legal entanglements, even bogus ones.)
But, hell, there are a lot of public domain images out there of Che, even if not the iconic one. Behold the Real Che #2, based on a public domain image they don't (currently magically claim to) own, and if they still want to bring it, we'll see who gets tired first:
