Legal Question in Intellectual Property in North Carolina
t-shirts
Do I need a patent or legal permission to manufacture a t-shirt
(crew neck)with my designs on it?
Asked on 5/10/09, 7:55 pm
1 Answer from Attorneys
Lawrence Graves
Coolidge & Graves PLLC
Re: t-shirts
Patents do not relate here; if you are creating original art for a T-shirt, then you would own the copyright in the art and can do with it whatever you wish. Others, without a license from you, could not use your original artwork.
Best wishes,
LDWG
Answered on 5/11/09, 6:40 am