@@JakeCuster oh, Yeah I hear that from a friend who had a similar problem. Seemingly those are an older model, afaik you can write them and they'll send you a new and up-to-date one, with more functionalities and stuff, and you can keep the old one! New model even can be trained to say "Yikes" when it's fitting!
Wouldn't be any more ridiculous than that time a lawyer had to explain to a judge what the "omegaverse" is in an official legal document because some douchebag romance novelist tried to take credit for it and sue a random fic author.
Drew’s comment of “I’m gonna go buy your shirt from teespring” followed immediately by the “F*ck You Drew” text had me laughing so hard, I think I scared my family.
is it something that he can sue for? because it is technically HIS company's design. and if he can, he should, not for the money, but to make a statement
@@oliviarichman6035 You don't apply for copyright dude. You make anything you are the sole owner of that IP and nobody can steal it. That's like thinkgeek Salvador Dali had to apply for a copyright so nobody would steal his painting designs it's the same thing. You can't steal somebody else's designs and make profit off of it
@@strangelove6397 It has to be provably unique and ORIGINAL. Which in this case it is. But you cant just make any little doodle or spin on something and claim you own the copyright. There's always lots of legal fine print when things get arbitrated.
So I saw this for Jenna, decided to report it - redbubble “can’t report it unless you’re the creator” Ie. It hurts our business model and there will be too many emails to deal with. Maybe someone needs to sue redbubble to make them have to pay attention
Eddy: "Normally, that would be an advertisement in one of my videos, but today, my merch is what my video is about." Jake Paul: "...what's the difference?"
I feel like all merch shouldn’t be creator-centric and I love the way Eddy describes it. Speaking as a kid, no one wants to wear a shirt with a face of a random person slapped on the front to school or something. That’s how you get weird looks and bullies.
What a double standard! He only get away with that because he is famous, Every time I try and steal peoples hearts I get arrested and put in a boring padded room.
@@galacticlavalamp6338 Idk if Jon Tron has changed but he made some pretty awful comments a few years ago. I don't know if he ever explicitly said anything racists but it had some really ignorant iffy and xenophobic undertones. He parroted some pretty dumb views and it kinda made me lose respect for him. Don't get me wrong he's still really funny but it definitely changed how I viewed him
I make mods for Fallout: New Vegas and Fallout 3 and the pain of someone stealing your content then pushing it as your own is horrible, props to you for keeping it civil
My friend does screen printing and made did a boy's support boys onesie for my baby with permission from the original logo artist. But I definitely wouldn't get a "Yikes" onesie
The fact that redbubbles IP copyright section includes "we ask, rather we beg you remember" speaks volumes. That document couldn't have been written by a legal team. It just serves as a way to wash their hands of responsibility when it comes to actually enforcing any infringement policy. "B-b-b-but we BEGGED them not to! We can't help it that they did it anyway 👉👈 "
RU-vid: I see you used 2 seconds of footage from the family guy christmas special. *We'll just go ahead and take your literal livelihood* Also RU-vid: Oh they stole your entire merch line and advertise it above your video's? *Yeah, seems about right*
It's not uncommon for advertisers to do that. If Eddy decided to advertise his own store and if he was willing to pay more for one click than teespring, he would be on top. That's how advertising works. Sucks for smaller stores though
Edelig the issue is that those shirts are straight up illegal, eddy and potentially the artist who created the yikes design are the only people with the commercial rights too it, eddy could technically sue but because it’s just some guy in teespring selling it probably out of india or some other country where eddy wouldn’t see a dime of the money he’s owed (which is probably a crazy amount based on the traffic these sites seem to get)
@@maxcheese382 I agree but that's not really on Google. They remove billions of "illegal" ads but it's literally impossible to keep track of every single text ad. Especially when they're automatically generated as I'm sure this particular teespring ad is. *Teespring* is responsible for selling this which is why they are at fault here. They shouldn't allow stolen content on their site period
Oh my GOD I've been looking for that Yikes sweater for so long. Now I know it's from you, Eddy. I will now endulge myself and check your content out as well.
The redbubble rights are so weird cos lots of things get past but when I put a hunger games fanart piece up, it gets taken down even when there are so any other hunger games designs up that are straight photos from the movies. It's very confusing and hard when you are an artist trying to make a couple of extra bunks
Hey you need an attorney to go after these stores bc it’s copyrighted material. You’re probably at the point in your career where you should have one if you don’t already but I believe that’s something they should be able to help with. That and building up the credibility of your own website through SEO, basically proving to the Great Google Algorithm that your site is the one people are actually searching for. Google wants people to find the right result, and right now the scammers are doing a way better job with the online marketing portion unfortunately
Im pretty sure he wont get away with trying to fight other people to sell merch using the word yikes on it. But the blatant ripoffs of the design and fighting them will be too much of a hassle. He should find something else.
I think he's in a more better off position by nit hiring a lawyer and seo specialist cuz of how costly and time consuming these things tend to get. I mean that's lowkey why i feel the ripoff industry got so big in the first place.
@@YeOleBaz Well, he could still get advice about what situations actually would be worth taking action against. The small scam stores may not be worth it, but teespring using him in ads might actually be something he could stop. I imagine if he talked to a lawyer who specializes in online businesses, he could get help increasing traffic to the site and/or getting it higher up in search results. That being said, I'm sure he already has an attorney on retainer that he discussed all this with, so this whole thread is kind of a moot point haha. 😭 oh well
Ye Ole Baz But they’re not just selling shirts with “yikes” on it, they’re ripping off Eddy and Leighton’s design, intercepting his SEO, and scamming his fans
Back when he was on Crowdmade, he had hats. And I gotta say, it's a baller hat, wear it every day. Hope he brings it back. Need different colours of it.
I just found your channel like just now and I just subscribed and I’m going to be buying your merch to support you on Friday when I get paid. Now I’m about to binge watch all your videos lmao
Literally I found a yikes hoodie on Teespring. I was going to buy it thinking it was official, but found out it wasn’t and didn’t buy it. People need to stop stealing other people’s stuff.
kpopisgoodd same! So many creators use teespring so I was like oh this must be it! Then a few days later Eddy relaunched and I was like oh my god they almost got me
MeganBeeHive I’ve run into so many websites that it confused me which website was official. I don’t buy merch that often so when I do want to buy it, it’s always other unofficial websites that pop up advertising it. 😐🙄
FrankFckngWest Honestly, Eddy is mad at the people stealing his ideas and using them as their own. The fact that you wanted to support him and buy a hoodie, not knowing it was unofficial, probably won’t bug him.
This kind of theft is a microcosm of what happens in the fashion industry generally. I like to put fast fashion brands on blast for stealing the designs and ideas of small designers because there's nothing you can do about it legally 99% of the time, the only thing you can do is to stop supporting those brands
The boring explanation for the weird review is SEO (search engine optimisation). Keywords push pages further up Google results because people are likely to search for it, so that stupid website just used a review to increase the keyword density
Type "yikesshop.com" into the Google search bar (not the URL bar) and it'll bring up the link right at the top. Make sure to actually open the website to help boost Eddy to the top of Google's search results.
@@NickC_222 Also going directly to the link might not help with page ranking anyway. You want people to search and click on it as well if you want it to move up the search results
artists have to deal with this sort of thing with everything they make from stolen art accounts to people reselling what they make on these types of cites making fake merch and such. This is n't something unique, it is a known issue but one that MUST be dealt with
I remember when Drew made the stickers in retaliation and I bought one! I always got comments on it and it was one of my most favorite pieces of merch I've ever bought!
the other day my boyfriend showed me a shirt he wanted from some wesite that sells t-shirts and I actually recognised the original artist and was able to tell him "don't buy it from this site, it's stolen, the artist has their own site" and after a lil digging we found it but holy shit people must get tricked into buying fake/stolen shit all the time and straight up not know especially if the design becomes popular
My sweet boyfriend wanted to get me a thoughtful Xmas gift, and he knows how much I like TMG/Cody and Noel’s vids. So he googled TMG merch and got me a cropped hoodie with the TMG logo on it. It was so thoughtful of him, but he fell for the fake merch sites, because it was prolly the top result, as you are talking about. So anyways... I let him know that it was fake mech (but that I obviously loved the thought behind it) and he was really pissed because he thought he was buying the official merch - because he wants to support them and not some company that rips off their designs. I told him it was fake, because it was such a thoughtful gift and I hope to have many more holidays with him and I know he obviously wants to buy the real merch as gifts (and not support these dumb companies). It happens to your fans directly, but I bet getting fake merch is even more common for people buying merch as gifts. Which sucks because it is likely a thoughtful person buying it.
I do care, that's lame, poor guy went to all the effort and he just got swindled. Dude just wants to be a good boyfriend but the internet won't let him.
Redbubble is such a double standard. I’m an illustrator and have uploaded original designs that fall under fair use because I use to draw mashups, but they always got taken down immediately. As other shops sell carbon copies of literally everything else, but they’re completely fine and remain up.
Drug and alcohol use maybe? Eddy has mentioned weed a few times, and we all know that smoking and drinking ages you. Or maybe it's the mustache? I know I tend to look younger than I am when I shave my beard.
Awesome video!!! Love your channel!!! You’re funny af and I especially love your reviews of good bad movies!!! A set of movies that I don’t think you reviewed yet that I believe you would love are films made by Neil Breen. He made “Faithful Findings”, “Double Down”, “Twisted Pair”, “Pass Thru”, and “I am Here... Now”. These are awesome good bad movies for both the filmmaking aspect as well as the stories his movies tell. They are rare gems that I think you’d enjoy watching. Maybe one of them could be a reaction video when there’s a time when you need content. Keep up the awesome work!!! Can’t wait for the next video!!!
Most of the sites aren't showing you what they have. What the scam sites are doing is they use an algorithm to take the image of what you're searching for and place it in a predetermined spot on the photos they have so no matter what you search for it will show up as they have it in their store. Then when you purchase it they print it on whatever you chose for it.
Ben and Cristine from Simply Nailogical mentioned you in their last 5-10 minutes of podcast on copyright vs trademark laws and how they handle similar situations.
