Limited T’s of limited legality

What’s bugging me today is that the number of unlicensed Peanuts t-shirts that are showing up in paid Facebook placement is increasing. You may know the ones, they come from “fan clubs” you’ve never heard of before and don’t otherwise exist, they’re “limited editions” or “limited time”. They’re some folks with an admittedly good design team (people who have studied this tell me they’re based in Asia, making it harder to legally smash ’em) with lots of new designs. I see the same things for other things I’m a fan of, but in much smaller quantity. And the fact that the flood of these has only increased tells me that this is a profitable business, that folks are ordering these pirate goods.

>sigh<

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