The Dillinger Escape Plan‘s LGBT benefit shirt has run into a copryright snafu due to the design. The band explained:
“Everyone. What started as us thinking someone’s badge was rad and being stoked on the gay marriage ruling, has just turned into a giant headache. When we saw the badge, we posted it in reference to the gay marriage passing. We then saw it as a good opportunity to not only take a hard stance in a scene not known for always being pro-gay(this is something we have strong feelings about…Liam’s mom has been “out” for most of Liam’s life so this is a cause near and dear to us), but to raise money for a good charity that links two causes that we care about.
Discrimination and depression. We altered the image enough to make it legally non-infringing according to parody law. Even still, we offered to license the image. Since then we’ve been just getting hammered by this guy FutureZine. We of all people obviously have no interest in stealing art. We brought attention to him, we linked to his store, etc. We thought the two people clasping hands was a powerful image. We didn’t think that the outline of those arms would be a big deal to someone making money off of selling predator and rambo themed badges, and an actual drawing of Bart Simpson.
Not a caracature, not an interpretation, actual Bart Simpson artwork from the show(season four, episode one, exactly two minutes in). In the meantime, if you wanna go buy the original patch from him go to his site. As for us, we will continue to send fifty percent of the proceeds of this shirt to The Trevor Project, and the other fifty will now go to Matt Groening as a settlement to keep him from suing FutureZine.
Irony is truly still a really dead scene. Apologies to any fans that feel like this is artistic infringement, we understand your point of view, and FutureZine, we will apologize to Arnold, Carl Weathers, John J. Rambo, Bart Simpson, and Matt Groening on your behalf. Hopefully this fifteen minutes has been worth your effort.
–The Dillinger Escape Plan
Everyone. What started as us thinking someone's badge was rad and being stoked on the gay marriage ruling, has just…
Posted by The Dillinger Escape Plan on Tuesday, June 30, 2015
