how good is shopify to sell tshirts

what's going on guys today I want to,talk to you about a topic I don't see a,lot of people covering and that's,because it can be a scary topic if you,don't know what you're talking about,or what to look for and that is when,you're doing Shopify or Amazon or,whatever it is and you're making any,designs whether it's for a t-shirt a hat,or even a mug or whatever you want to,put it on a laptop case there's a lot of,things you have to be careful about,because it gets very in-depth when it,goes to trademarks and copyrights and,just intellectual property rights and,it's something I've been doing a lot of,research on recently and noticed that it,goes way more in-depth than I thought,and I can't do a lot of the things I,thought I could do so I'm gonna go,through kind of a couple of mistakes I,made and what you guys need to watch out,for and show you some examples and how I,personally search very quickly so I'll,have to pay a lawyer to see any,trademarks and what's actually out there,this is not advice this is just what I'm,doing so consult professional if you,want to but first off is are we looking,at copyrights for designs for shirts are,you looking at trademarks most of the,time it's gonna be a trademark and,trademarks are anything that's any type,of intellectual property so it can be a,name it could be a word it could be a,phrase a logo or any of them combined,and it could be quotes so there's a,multitude of different things it can be,and there's different ways to classify,them but don't worry I'll make that make,sense in a little bit and next comes,intellectual property rights so let's,say you're looking online you say ok,well I'm gonna go search and see if this,is trademarked you say oh ok it's not,trademarked but I see someone using this,design I found this design online can I,use it,nope anything someone is made that's,online that's not a hundred percent,unique your own you cannot use so if I,find a garyvee quote and I like it and I,want to go put it on a shirt and he,doesn't have a trademarked I'm still,technically not allowed to sell that,because he owns the intellectual,property rights as soon as it's online,or on a public domain now you might get,confused in here when I talk about,public domain in a little bit but that's,different so what are some of the things,that you 100% can't do you can't be,putting any brands logos images they own,you can't be putting lyrics to a song,again unless all of that house,you can't be putting obviously company,logos or phrases their advertising kind,of slings or jingles they have you can't,use anything you've taken off the,internet or social media I don't care,what it is you cannot use images from,memes or viral videos no matter how much,you see out there,the person might not be suing people now,but it's possible they will go after you,or just send you a cease and desist,letter and it's not worth the headache,and then any phrases or quotes or poetry,from an author now trademarks generally,last around 10 years they do have to,renew it around year five or six and,rare cases they can be extended so I'm,going to show you guys some things you,can do real quick so you guys are,allowed to use royalty-free images,however they have to have an extended,license more times than not which means,you can use them for commercial use,which would be reselling specifically on,Shopify in this example so commercial,use you have to be able to resell it and,they will tell you a certain amount okay,you can print 500,000 shirts and one,thing I've noticed on a couple of these,stock image sites is they'll say okay,you can't do print on demand you have to,order inventory in bulk if you're doing,print on demand you're not allowed to,use this image period so I'll show you,guys that but first let me show you some,examples on my computer of some things,you don't want to do which are,definitely illegal right now so I'm,gonna pull up three different shirts and,you guys will be able to recognize all,of these so these are all kind of,entrepreneur shirts that I saw I did not,make these and obviously this is the,7/11 logo and it's pretty clear I don't,think they even changed the logo they,changed the lettering which is not,enough you're not allowed to take bits,and pieces of someone else's design,switch a few things in Photoshop or even,a decent amount of stuff and make it,yours that is not legal so he has this,for the 7-eleven he has the same thing,for the Starbucks logo and the,MasterCard logo so those can get you in,a lot of trouble and I'm really,surprised because it's a bigger store,and he has a lot of shirts like that,that he hasn't been pursued legally yet,but how can you search these kind of,things how do I know if a random design,is trademarked how,certain words are trademarked so how you,can know is by going just searching,trademark research or trademark,electronic search system right up here,and this is the government's website and,you can go in and search and I want to,show you guys a funny example so I was,looking at funny divine funny designs,and I found this one girls just want to,have funds so we see that and I'm gonna,go search that here now I'll go over the,different methods in one second so basic,search so I'm gonna search the exact,thing I found so I'm gonna make sure,it's on the combined words you don't,want all and then I'm going to do all,search terms because it's more specific,and I want to make sure it's live if,it's dead then it's not active anymore,so on this we see one thing comes up and,it shows the word mark right here girls,just wanna have fun so the same thing,but this one doesn't have a dollar sign,and it explains that it's for goods and,services so there's different marks so,different trade marks on different types,of goods and services if someone puts,the girls just want to have fun trade,mark on a piece of software and it's,used for software and advertising then,technically I can go use that on,clothing because it's in different,industries and that is technically,allowed however you can see they have it,clothing for advertising promoting,services in the financial industry,shirts blah blah blah and use in,commerce and then education as well so,clothing right there is what I was,looking to do so that one is taken now,what if I replace the S with a dollar,sign is that a big enough of a,difference and for me that's not,something I want to walk the line on,right there so I would not mess with,that so that was my personal example I,had now you guys can search any,combination of words you can search just,single words because a lot of stuff will,come up so let's say I just searched up,money and you can see 3130 results and,there are a lot of results to go through,which is why I like to personally do the,more advanced searches here which do,take a little bit more time and will,look pretty confusing but you can go,through any of these and if you guys,want to use mine you,and so I made sure it's it is a,trademark so I'm searching all,trademarks I'm searching everything,that's live I'm searching everything,that is under the clothing category for,goods and services and then whatever my,keyword is I can put down here so if I,want to put cats I can submit this and,I'll see everything that comes up that,meets all those requirements so right,here all of these have cats somewhere in,their keyword and I can narrow it down,to have the keyword in the title or the,description so it's pretty much as easy,as that now one thing to look out for is,under the very basic search the first,one it does not bring up designs the,second one on brings up designs so you,can do multiple you could say it's kind,of like the same one so we can go to,goods and services again and we'll just,type in 25 which is clothing and we'll,just leave this as all change this to,and and then we'll use our keyword and,we'll say cats so this will bring up,anything that has a trademark with the,word cats that is on the clothing so,bring up anything that has cats and is,under the goods and services of clothing,now honestly the best way is to either,make your own designs or hire someone,and if you're gonna hire someone ask,them what font they use so you can go,research that where they got the images,or how they made them and then if,there's any words or phrases on there go,and search that another example of one I,was just looking for it's just a basic,word is just self-made if I'm just,searching self-made we can see right,here boom self-made for enhancement of,photos photo editing digital image,correction so I should be able to use,that on clothing and if they don't have,a registration number that means they've,applied for it but it's not fully active,yet but you can see there are ones for,clothing and different things around,here and I really just look right here,to see if it is in clothing or whatever,items I want to put that mark on now if,you do hire someone to make your designs,you can do a five or upwork or whatever,you guys want once they're done with the,design I recommend doing a reverse image,search to see if there's anything really,similar to it because we're not trying,to straddle a line here,there's no reason to get sued for,trademarks or copyrights or anything,design-wise when you can just be,original copying them isn't gonna really,get you any sales or any more sales so,all you do here is just drag an image so,let's say I want to use the one I gave,as an example for you guys it'll pull up,everything that looks similar to like,that online now this one it pulled up,different t-shirts which if I just did,the logo without the t-shirt it would,pull up anything that is similar to that,logo not as much having the t-shirt in,the background but that is a way to kind,of see if you have a design that's like,anyone elses or if your designer just,copied some other images so just let,them know it needs to be an original,work and one thing you guys can do is go,and buy images now it is a little bit,more expensive but you can buy images,that you can use for Shopify and you,will own the rights to them an example,is this one right here so I like to use,shutterstock it's one of the cheaper,ones I found so let's say I want this,design I'm gonna put it on a shirt and,I'm gonna sell it well I can just,download it right now it says copyright,free royalty free that means I can use,it right nope you cannot put it on,anything for resale and a perfect,example right here is they show their,licenses and what they do so their,standard license it lets you have,physical reproduction production up to,okay we don't care about TV and online,legal we don't care copies of web or,print templates not allowed so there you,go right there use in merchandise or,promotional distribution again no so we,cannot do either of those and you can,read into it more but if we get the,enhanced license we can do all of the,above and do copies on the web and use,in merchandise now you can see five,images is four hundred and fifty dollars,with that license but it is a necessity,if you want to do print on demand or,Shopify selling and sell that design so,I'd have to go over here upgrade to,enhanced and then go through that,process and it's about $80 a photo and,that's the most legit site I've seen,I've seen one that's like $30 an image,but it just looks sketchy to me so it's,not really worth it,but that's gonna be all for this one I,hope you,learn something if you have any,questions feel free to drop them down,below and I'll try my best to answer,them this is just something I've been,going through a lot having to do a lot,of research and a lot of work to figure,out how to do this because not a lot of,people talk about this or even do their,own research on this so I'll be,consulting some lawyers and let you guys,know what else I find out and I'll see,you guys in the next video

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