Email From SpreadShirt

Hello Mal,

Thank you very much for you e-mail expressing your concern about the design mentioned. We realize that you are a large group feeling offended by it and acknowledge and respect your wish.

The design has been published in the shop by the shop owner, who is also solely editorially responsible for it. Therefore we ask you to contact him with your concern and your request to take down the design.

Please believe us that we have debated intensely about the subject and also researched the situation thoroughly. As a German company we were not immediately familiar with the background and the context that you refer to, therefore our reaction took some time. We apologize for this and also hope for your understanding.

We ask you to approach the shop owner directly because we are – as the platform operator – for the shops responsible in limited terms only, i.e. by maintaining and supervising it. We do check the designs as you may be aware of but only for direct rights violations such as trademark rights or copyrights.

But in this case it is an ethical or rather moral background rather than the design itself that is causing the trouble. Therefore the shop owner is the right contact. We do not intervene with the mindset of the content of the shops because that would easily lead to patronizing the shop owners – which is something that we duly try to avoid.

We also believe that while it is not only necessary for you as a group to approach the shop owner, it would also be the better solution for this problem. If all of you - and as far as we know there are many - would contact the operators of the shop these would be well aware of the force that they are standing against. It would help to make the people standing behind the Republic of Mancunia understand how much they are crossing the line with this design.

We hope that you can understand our point of view. We also wish you success in your negotiations with the shop owner.


For further questions please don't hesitate to contact me again.

Kind regards

Lina
Spreadshirt Legal Service


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