Jack Dorsey, co-founder of Twitter (now X) and Square (now Block), sparked a weekend’s worth of debate around intellectual property, patents, and copyright, with a characteristically terse post declaring, “delete all IP law.”
X’s current owner Elon Musk quickly replied, “I agree.”
How do you feel about things like t-shirts where the design is made by the seller, but the shirt itself is produced elsewhere. It follows the same model, but generally they’re used as merch by a variety of different groups, from music artists to influencers to charity groups.
Are you expecting something like, “Designed by Local Company in Local City, manufactured by Happy Clappy Fun Time in Shenzen”?
Honestly that particular business model already pretty much works the way I’d want it to.
The T-shirts are made in tremendous quantities by the likes of Hanes or Gildan with a tag in the collar that shows the company name/logo and country of origin. Quite often the artist or IP owner of the printed art will include a trademark or copyright symbol as appropriate into the artwork. The printing company often goes uncredited.