Johnny Cupcake ripped off by Urban Outfitters[views:5217][posts:27]______________________________________ [Jan 18,2006 7:57pm - the_reverend ""] http://www.johnnycupcakes.com/ [img] [img] Urban Outfitters ripped off a Johnny Cupcakes shirt and is now selling it in some of their stores. Here is the story. Urban Outfitters have just released a shirt with a jet dropping cupcakes (with a different color scheme) which is the exact same thing that Johnny Cupcakes released around 2 years prior. Last year Urban wanted to carry my shirts & they had a few Johnny Cupcakes shirt samples I had sent them....the Jet dropping cupcakes being one of them. I never ended up getting my samples back after we decided not to do business together. THEY NEVER HAD PERMISSION TO REPRODUCE THIS OR ANY OTHER OF MY DESIGNS. A friend of mine that works in an Urban Outfitters e-mailed me recently, telling me that she thought they got Johnny Cupcakes shirts in.... except they had an "Urban Renewal" tag/print on the inside of em - which is Urban Outfitters' notorious clothing line that rips off small, independent artists & designers from all around the world. I know over a dozen people that work at different Urban Outfitters across the US, and they've told me this happens all the time. Most of them are ashamed to work there, but it beats McDonald's. I am currently talking to a few lawyers to see if there's anything I can do. They may have changed the design around enough so that they can't get in trouble. Major bummer. If you google "Urban Outfitters" and "Infringement" - you will find over five hundred results & cases about Urban Outfitters infringing upon young/small designers & clothing lines. I've been getting tons of e-mails from designers that couldn't even take their cases to court, because they're not a billion dollar corporation (yet) & don't have a fraction of the money that Urban brings in. I am Johnny Cupcakes, this company is my life, and this awful, scummy situation upsets me. Above you will see the Red Jet t-shirt dropping cupcakes that I originally sent to them, as a sample, before I decided to keep my shirts out of Urban Outfitters. They KEPT my sample shirts, copied the idea of one of them so far, and is now mass producing them with their 'Urban Renewal' company name on the inside . |
| __________________________________ [Jan 18,2006 8:02pm - succubus ""] hmm aaron maybe i should post about you getting ripped off too |
| ____________________________________ [Jan 18,2006 8:22pm - anonymous ""] Not cool, not cool at all. |
| _____________________________________ [Jan 18,2006 8:34pm - RustedAngel ""] Isn't it $31.99 for a johnny cupcake shirt? Fuck him. He's making money off dumb shirts. The design is different enough where UO probably won't be in trouble. |
| _____________________________________ [Jan 18,2006 8:49pm - KeithMutiny ""] thats different enough, legally they will get away with it. |
| ____________________________________ [Jan 18,2006 9:06pm - anonymous ""] Who the hell is Johnny Cupcakes anyways? |
| ______________________________ [Jan 18,2006 9:17pm - cav ""] i think he used to be in on broken wings, but i could be totally wrong. |
| _____________________________________ [Jan 18,2006 9:19pm - KeithMutiny ""] hes the guy from bright eyes... |
| ________________________________________________ [Jan 18,2006 9:54pm - mark fucking richards ""] he's the dj type guy or whatever from on broken wings, whether he's in it still or not i do not know. regardless, i'm sick of hearing about this. |
| _________________________________ [Jan 18,2006 10:22pm - xmikex ""] here's what I posted on Myspace about this. a lot of people found it fairly accurate.... From: 867530AIDS Date: Jan 17, 2006 12:04 AM the long and short of it: Urban Outfitters, a crappy trendcenter company that exploits trendy nerds and turns a profit off of making people look like douchebags.... ripped off a t-shirt design from Johnny Cupcakes, a kid who slaps cupcakes on ripoff hackneyed popculture images and patterns and exploited "hardcore" to push his merch on trendy nerds (FOR $31.99 A T-SHIRT). wahh wahh boo hoo who cares 1) Anyone who knows me, and knows my usual criticisms should know why I've found a certain degree of satisfaction in watching this particular intellectual property get stolen. Really, something you part "hard work" into got stolen? Someone else ripped your ideas, and is turning a profit over it? Someone else is taking credit for your work simply because they can? Because they have the means, connections, capital, and opportunity to get away with it? Now you're left holding your dick while someone else cashes in on a carbon copy of something you created? Shitty. Does this sound familar to anyone? 2) And even if you don't know me that well (or you're just deaf or braindead) how about this: GET YOUR FUCKING PRIORITIES IN ORDER. When was the last time Johnny Cupcakes paid your gas bill? When was the last time some stupid t shirt with a cupcake stamped on it put food on your table, paid your rent, got you a job, signed your paycheck, or did anything worthwhile for you? Or perhaps the better question to ask is.... when was the last time Johnny Cupcakes took your money, pushed his merch on you, asked you for a favor, or looked at you as a stepping stone to making more money? Get the fuck off it already, and think about it. "Johnny Cupcakes" and Urban Outfitters are the same thing, the same billboard, the same commercial, and the same song and dance to separate you from your money. 3) I don't buy the stand up for the little guy plea for a minute. Just who the hell is the little guy exactly? I grew up in a city where teenage kids stabbed, and shot eachother over drugs. How many people are unemployed, and homeless in Massachusetts alone? How many people are getting squeezed by rising health insurance, and energy costs? The little guy is the poor motherfucker who gets snowed every day by shitty circumstances, and has no one to stand up for them because everyone is on the internet playing some teary violin solo over some kid who's goal in life is to get rich making designer t-shirts with pastries pressed on them. Think about it. 4) Does Ralph Lauren care about you? Does supporting Calvin Klein make you a better person? Does siding with Burger King over Wendys make a difference in your life? If I blew my nose on a t-shirt and sold it for $31.99 (THAT'S NOT EVEN A FUCKING JOKE $31.99!!!) would any one of you loud mouths stand up for me? Give me a hand up when I needed it? Throw a shit fit when someone wrongs me? Doubt it. 5.) $31.99 for a t-shirt. That's more money then I spend on food in a week. How much profit do you make for coming up with shitty ideas? Repost this a billion times. Delete me as your friend. Tell me I don't know what I'm talking about, that's he's the most stand up kid ever. Do whatever you want. I don't care. But in my opinion (which nobody asked for) you'd benefit a lot more from this situation if you pulled your head out of your ass, realize where you really stand in this equation, and actually learn something from this. Oh, and one more time.... $31.99 for a t-shirt. Sincerely, Mike "I Still don't like rapcore" Shea |
| _________________________________ [Jan 18,2006 10:23pm - xmikex ""] mark fucking richards said:he's the dj type guy or whatever from on broken wings, whether he's in it still or not i do not know. regardless, i'm sick of hearing about this. he stood near the stage, and made irrelevant stupid noises that most people either never even heard, or didn't care about whatsoever. By that logic, I was in On Broken Wings. |
| _____________________________________________________ [Jan 18,2006 10:29pm - menstrual_sweatpants_disco ""] xmikex said:he stood near the stage, and made irrelevant stupid noises that most people either never even heard, or didn't care about whatsoever. By that logic, I was in On Broken Wings. haha |
| _________________________________________________ [Jan 18,2006 11:08pm - mark fucking richards ""] dude, then i was in on broken wings too! i was the guy that couldn't stand being in the band. |
| ____________________________________ [Jan 18,2006 11:14pm - dreadkill ""] this thread rules. mike's rant against johnny cupcakes is awesome. fuck johnny cupcakes. i hope he dies a poor miserable bastard. |
| _______________________________________________ [Jan 18,2006 11:34pm - BobNOMAAMRooney nli ""] haha, I reposted it on myspace despite not being mike's friend. What's he going to do? Sue me for bulletin infringement? |
| _________________________________ [Jan 19,2006 12:26am - xmikex ""] BobNOMAAMRooney nli said:haha, I reposted it on myspace despite not being mike's friend. What's he going to do? Sue me for bulletin infringement? the bridge9 messageboard will hear all about this injustice |
| _______________________________________________ [Jan 19,2006 12:52am - BobNOMAAMRooney nli ""] You don't know who you're fucking with. I was in On Broken Wings because one time I saw a kid in an On Broken Wings t-shirt at the Walpole Mall. |
| ________________________________________________ [Jan 19,2006 2:37am - whiskey_weed_and_women ""] KeithMutiny said:hes the guy from bright eyes... i thought i was that guy, where is dwyer to solve this mystery mark fucking richards said:dude, then i was in on broken wings too! i was the guy that couldn't stand being in the band. upon broken crimson wings, maybe |
| ______________________________________ [Jan 19,2006 3:01am - Dave Maggot ""] upon on beneath crimson broken spicy fried chicken wings |
| __________________________________ [Jan 19,2006 7:43am - succubus ""] KeithMutiny said:hes the guy from bright eyes... that was your lamest reply ever.. and again...i had no clue what this was about when aaron told me before he posted it...guess i'm not scene enough i'm still pissed that you got ripped off aaron.. |
| ______________________________________ [Jan 19,2006 8:07am - the_reverend ""] it was my turn next month for johnny to pay my gas bill and now, thanks to urban outfitters, he doesn't have the month! thanks urban outifts. [img] |
| __________________________________ [Jan 19,2006 9:45am - succubus ""] The rev was ripped off by victory records! |
| ______________________________________ [Jan 19,2006 9:49am - Dave Maggot ""] i was ripped off by the ham burglar. the bastard stole my burgers. he had the grimmace as back up, so i had no chance. rubble rubble |
| _______________________________ [Jan 19,2006 10:51am - Egon ""] I agree with Mike. When I read the thirty MySpace bulletins I got about this all I could think about was how Johnny Cupcakes rips off designs and changes them. Scanning the website I saw ripoffs of the Cubscouts, King Kong, the Partridge Family, Tinman from Wizard of Oz, Burberry, and I'm sure I'm missing some. Yeah I feel real bad for him. |
| _______________________________ [Jan 19,2006 10:56am - cav ""] well if hes responsible for the noises on OBWs first record then hes good in my book, because those noises were cool |
| ___________________________________ [Jan 19,2006 10:58am - succubus ""] The rev got ripped off by victory records |
| _______________________________________ [Jan 19,2006 11:18am - the_reverend ""] [img] |
| ________________________________ [Jan 19,2006 8:20pm - xmikex ""] succubus said:The rev got ripped off by victory records anyone who ever paid $16.99 for a Bury your dead cd got ripped off by victory. |