PepperBox Pete Posted March 28, 2006 Share Posted March 28, 2006 Do you have to pay royalties if you did a shirt that said Prepare to be boarded, Surrender the booty, A Pirates life for me....etc.......Or any Piratical saying. Did a quick search, couldn't find anything. These phrases are not from a film or anything.. Help. Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoshuaRed Posted March 28, 2006 Share Posted March 28, 2006 No, but those are all already on scores of shirts, so you want to be careful about infringing on existing design copyrights. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PepperBox Pete Posted March 28, 2006 Author Share Posted March 28, 2006 Thanks! I understand about the design aspect of things. It's different font, design etc.... Thanks again! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tall Paul Posted March 29, 2006 Share Posted March 29, 2006 To claim copyright, you have to be able to prove that the phrase (Or whatever) is your intalectual property. ie that you thought of ot first. You may have a problem with "A Pirates life for me", for example, because it is a line from a song by lyricist Xavier Atencio and composer George Bruns commisioned for Disney. But unless "Surrender the booty" was first used in a book that is still in copyright, (Something like 50 years after the death of the author, but it varies depending on the country, publishers contract and so on) You should be fairly safe. Cpt "Tall Paul" Adams Colchester Historical Enactment Society (C.H.E.S.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phillip Black Posted April 25, 2006 Share Posted April 25, 2006 The last thing ye be wantin' to do is to be infringin' the copyright's o' another..for if ye do, ye'll be branded a Pirate!... Sea Captain: Yar, that be handsome pete, he dances on the pier for nickels! Sea Captain: Arrr... you gave him a quarter, he'll be dancin all day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John_Young Posted April 26, 2006 Share Posted April 26, 2006 Well let's be technical too... I could put a copyrighted item on a shirt. And I shouldn't get in trouble as long as it's for my own personal use and I neither sell them nor give them to anyone for any purpose or profit. "Yo Ho, all together hoist the colours high Heave Ho, theives and beggers Never shall we die..." "I don't care who ye say you are lad, if ye say 'savvy' one more time, I'll bury this cutlass in that thick skull of yers!" -Captain John Young - PILF Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caraccioli Posted April 26, 2006 Share Posted April 26, 2006 I suspect that most pirate lingo is public domain at this point. As such, copyright wouldn't even be a consideration. (I even have doubts Disney could lay claim to the phrase "A pirates life for me!" at this point.) Joshua made some really good points about not copying styles (fonts and so forth), which, if unique enough, are copyrightable, but for the most part, you're probably safe. "You're supposed to be dead!" "Am I not?" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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