SELL ME ONE.
It is the dance of my people.
SELL ME ONE.
It is the dance of my people.
You should be able to do it unless its only for yourself, but if you are selling it with that image on it then perhaps may need permission and stuff from SE.
I really wouldn't worry about it. You most likely won't get an official response neither, given the sort of abusive behavior your peers like to portray when given an inch. Creating something out of pure self-serving fandom is not much of a problem. It's when you distribute, and especially sell, the item in question that it becomes a legal issue. Even then though, small-time produced clothing is hardly a concern of theirs. If distribution is not your game, go for it. If they were that concerned about it, you'd never see anyone cosplay an FF character, bake cakes/cookies with FF symbolism, create fan sites, etc.
To cut the answer short, I have no intention of selling one. I intend to make one for myself, and only myself. Most likely not even use a character or even model from ingame, simply a shadow silhouette showing the motions to follow for the dance maybe a few other details about it.The Manderville Dance is the copyrighted material owned by Square-Enix and whatever parent corp. Accordingly, they have rights in derivative works, displays, yada yada.. all that good stuff found in § 106 of the Copyright laws. Such a shirt would undeniably be considered a derivative work. The moment you start selling it, SE has every right to send a cease and desist letter to your house. Whether they do or not is another story (see Etsy which seems to be built on copyright infringement :P ).
(additionally, you're arguably prohibited from arranging a flash mob to perform the Manderville)
Last edited by Truefaith87; 04-23-2014 at 12:37 PM.
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Actually I don't think they could copyright the steps of the "dance" itself, just the name, as far as I understand it. (I believe you can not copyright, movement and the human form in the US.)
Theoretically if you made the shirt, with a generic human form (think restroom signs, etc) and didn't specifically say it was the Manderville, or include their logos, you could actually sell it. However if you used the name and an image from the game/logos you'd run into trouble.
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