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Old 13th August 2015, 01:10 PM
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I never knew about that banner. No wonder I like the typeface they used for sixxxxxx...HER TEAM DIDN'T EVEN DO IT.

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Originally Posted by Yoake View Post
Not a fan of the design because it looks like hawaian souvenir for tourist or something like that. But at least she tried something else and it's refreshing in a certain way.
However I really like the T-shirt. It's really cool.

And please people, stop to slander someone when you don't know what happened behind the scenes.
No one is slandering anyone. I'm saying that I have a problem with Ayu making a profit off the creativity of her fans when she has a team of people that are employed to design this stuff for her.

And whether it would hold up in a court of law regarding the fans' initial use of images that technically don't belong to them is irrelevant IMO. This isn't Skyward Sword, and gratitude crystals are not a legal form of currency. For her to use fan art on, for example, tour merchandise means that logo ended up on millions of yen worth of merch over the course of a tour--and the person that designed the entire logo of the tour never saw a dime. The fans didn't consent to that and, from what I remember, were never approached by avex to discuss the official use of their works.