Comments on: Cafe Press’s Automated Censorship http://urbanhonking.com/ideasfordozens/2006/01/14/cafe_presss_automated_censorsh/ Thu, 19 Jun 2014 09:26:37 +0000 hourly 1 By: Alexis http://urbanhonking.com/ideasfordozens/2006/01/14/cafe_presss_automated_censorsh/#comment-42719 Fri, 14 Feb 2014 20:30:24 +0000 http://urbanhonking.com/ideasfordozens/2006/01/14/cafe_presss_automated_censorsh/#comment-42719 I swear! CafePress thought almost ALL my designs were copyrighted.

I saw a girl wearing a CafePress t-Shirt that said the typical “I <3 ______" and she put "Zuuki Chan" a girl from a band. So I decide, "Oh, let me make an "I <3 Airi Suzuki" shirt."

Guess. What.
IT GET'S FLAGGED. I'm leaving CafePress after they allow me to buy the notebook I made and have always dreamed of, because I sent them an e-mail "kindly" (SARCASM) telling them off. They haven't responded yet.

]]> By: Alan http://urbanhonking.com/ideasfordozens/2006/01/14/cafe_presss_automated_censorsh/#comment-131 Fri, 30 Nov 2007 23:54:34 +0000 http://urbanhonking.com/ideasfordozens/2006/01/14/cafe_presss_automated_censorsh/#comment-131 Hey did you ever get an explanation form Cafepress?
As someone said above Ketchup is copyrighted, so are band-aid and Q-tip no matter how common a name brand may become in the language it is still copyrighted material and if used in print is a violation of the rights.
Also some companies actually copyright their package designs as well. I think I remember reading long ago that the Heinz Ketchup bottle itself is copyrighted or trade marked so that ketchup manufacturers can’t use a similar design. It may extend to the bottle represented in art also

]]> By: Shalvin http://urbanhonking.com/ideasfordozens/2006/01/14/cafe_presss_automated_censorsh/#comment-130 Tue, 01 May 2007 16:41:57 +0000 http://urbanhonking.com/ideasfordozens/2006/01/14/cafe_presss_automated_censorsh/#comment-130 I think I also heard that cafepress has people that go over each Image upload and decides if the image has violated copyright laws.
We have a site that offers t-shirts along with a lot more unique and exciting products.
You could checkout http://www.bravisa.com and offer you feedback to us.
By the way great shirt Greg

]]> By: Veri Tas http://urbanhonking.com/ideasfordozens/2006/01/14/cafe_presss_automated_censorsh/#comment-129 Thu, 01 Feb 2007 21:19:22 +0000 http://urbanhonking.com/ideasfordozens/2006/01/14/cafe_presss_automated_censorsh/#comment-129 The word “ketchup” with this spelling is copy protected by Heinz. They OWN the word. Period!

]]> By: Greg http://urbanhonking.com/ideasfordozens/2006/01/14/cafe_presss_automated_censorsh/#comment-128 Wed, 27 Dec 2006 13:25:25 +0000 http://urbanhonking.com/ideasfordozens/2006/01/14/cafe_presss_automated_censorsh/#comment-128 A correction: To be fair, I noticed that some of the old shirts, like the Portland Building shirt, which was one of my favorites, are still available on CafePress.

]]> By: Greg http://urbanhonking.com/ideasfordozens/2006/01/14/cafe_presss_automated_censorsh/#comment-127 Wed, 27 Dec 2006 13:14:37 +0000 http://urbanhonking.com/ideasfordozens/2006/01/14/cafe_presss_automated_censorsh/#comment-127 Cheryl — I didn’t add any keywords to any of my uploads. The whole CafePress upload process is so difficult on its own that I didn’t really take the time to add much metadata while doing this project. Just designing a shirt and struggling through their website was enough for me. I was actually just looking at my T-Shirt-A-Day photoset on Flickr and reminscing about this project the other day.
This whole ketchup censorship episode, really took the wind out of my sails on that one. Clicking around, I discovered that the old shirts aren’t even still up on CafePress, which is depressing.
Now, my only hope is that someone from CafePress discovers this post and all the great sympathetic comments from everyone and learns the error of their ways!

]]> By: cheryl http://urbanhonking.com/ideasfordozens/2006/01/14/cafe_presss_automated_censorsh/#comment-126 Wed, 27 Dec 2006 11:56:22 +0000 http://urbanhonking.com/ideasfordozens/2006/01/14/cafe_presss_automated_censorsh/#comment-126 I know I’m awfully late to comment on your cafepress ketchup difficulties… But I understand the automated censorship keys in on the keywords you add to the image… Did you use anything in your keywords that could be a copyright issue?

]]> By: poor quality http://urbanhonking.com/ideasfordozens/2006/01/14/cafe_presss_automated_censorsh/#comment-125 Wed, 06 Sep 2006 20:24:52 +0000 http://urbanhonking.com/ideasfordozens/2006/01/14/cafe_presss_automated_censorsh/#comment-125 Well let me tell you about Cafepress. They are TERRIBLE! I just ordered a shirt for my daughter’s birthday of her favorite character, Miffy. She sat online and ordered it herself and has been waiting for a week to get it in the mail. It came today and she opened it and said, “Someone already wore this shirt.” It was totally faded and too small (they advertised the wrong size)I can not believe the quality of this shirt. I have found nothing good on the web about this company except that my experience is not unique.
If you want a shirt that is better quality than anything this company produces, print it out on your HP ink-jet and transfer it w/ an iron. It will look better and cost much less.
Way to go Cafepress…make a 3 year old cry on her birthday!
Avoid this company!

]]> By: buddy boy http://urbanhonking.com/ideasfordozens/2006/01/14/cafe_presss_automated_censorsh/#comment-124 Tue, 11 Apr 2006 07:59:36 +0000 http://urbanhonking.com/ideasfordozens/2006/01/14/cafe_presss_automated_censorsh/#comment-124 Cafe press is getting too big for it’s britches! They actually let lot’s of blatant copyright infringements go through and they encourage members to copy ideas of other members by doing a call for designs on every topic that comes up. Have a clever idea? DON’T POST IT AT CAFE PRESS–it will be gone in a heart beat!
Then on top of it–their customer service to shop owners and individuals is HOPELESS.
Basically they think they can do what they want and everyone will take it.
They just need someone to give them some real competition. Zazzle does not because most TALENTED artists won’t go with zazzle due to their horrible licensing agreement which requires all rights forever!

]]> By: Greg http://urbanhonking.com/ideasfordozens/2006/01/14/cafe_presss_automated_censorsh/#comment-123 Sat, 14 Jan 2006 19:45:35 +0000 http://urbanhonking.com/ideasfordozens/2006/01/14/cafe_presss_automated_censorsh/#comment-123 The fact that the censorship happens during the upload process implies to me that it’s coming from some kind of filter being run on the file itself. It was just too fast to have involved human intervention.
Their email also made it sound like the process entailed certain designs being flagged for viewing by a human after which point they might become available after all: “Accordingly, we have set the content that we believe to be questionable to “pending status” which disables said content from being displayed in your shop or purchased by the public.”
Anyway, thanks for saying nice things about the design! I was pretty proud of it. . .

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