Every time I see @theshoesurgeon in the news I remember the time he offered me $18 for a pair of his earliest customs that I found at a thrift shop for $18. I respectfully declined and kept it moving.
They say you shouldn’t take things personally and I definitely try not to, but the fact that I’m posting this tells you that I probably did take it a bit personally…
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My thoughts on the lawsuit: in some sense I suppose Nike is right - this dude has basically built a mini-empire off of their brand and their image…$60m sounds pretty absurd, tho, doesn’t it?
I’ve got no problem with small time cobblers making a few bucks here or there using Nike as the base for their creations, but any time they’re churning them out charging $1.5k+ per I can see where the issue resides.
I tend not to look so much as ‘what has been done’, I prefer to look at ‘what can be done in the future’ as I think the past is the past - why can’t Nike allow smaller creators to license their brand image via royalties? Yeah I know I know plenty of d**kbutts making terrible copies, but what about those that aren’t?
Hell, I’d pay a licensing fee to rock with the brand image on several ideas…matter of fact - why don’t yall get at me?