> ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Andy Singer" > To: "Joel Parks" > Sent: Wednesday, June 09, 2004 4:57 AM > Subject: Re: request permission to use your images > Dear Joel, Yes, you can make a T-Shirt with the Deco Bikes. If you ever make more than $500 from it, then you should give me a small share (...say 10% of net). Sound good? I haven't made anything from Verge yet... but they only pay out twice a year. They manufacture T-Shirts and bike Jerseys and I signed a contract with them to print 6 designs. They just came out a couple months ago, so it will take time to see if they make money. You made a nice looking site. Good luck with BikeBedford! Peace, Andy Singer Joel Parks wrote: > Hi Andy, > > I hope all is well with you. > > Some time back I emailed you asking for permission to use graphics from the > CD that came with my CarToons book I ordered, on the web site I was putting > together for the bicycle advocacy groups I'm involved with. > > I don't remember if I let you know when the site came up (Jan 2003) but I > meant to, if I didn't... > > Anyway, www.bikebedford.org is the site, and I've used a handful of the > graphics (with a little tweaking in IrfanView to make them load faster). > I've finally gotten around to making some changes, like adding a hit counter > and adding more content and stuff. > > Now I'm trying to come up with t-shirts for bikebedford.org people (and that > can be ordered via a link from the web site) and I'm wondering how to ask > you if we can use the you feel about if it would be too much to ask if I > could use the decobikes graphic that is part of the standard header for the > web pages. One of the shirts I envision would use the standard header, > including the decobikes graphic. I haven't figured out yet if that would be > combined with the "Bike to Work / Work to Bike" message that I've been > wanting to put on shirts for years... > > I'm planning to use the service from http://www.cafepress.com/ to produce > shirts, and I haven't decided whether to use it as a fund-raising vehicle > for Bedford Friends of the Minuteman Bikeway which is the non-profit group > represented by the bikebedford.org site. The alternative would be to set up > the cafepress service to produce the shirts without charging a mark-up, so > there would be no profit. > > What are your thoughts on this? I guess I would pretty much expect you to > claim a portion of any profit generated, if you even let me go ahead. I'm > not really expecting big volumes of sales (like, I'd probably order 10 to > wear and sell on Bedford Day where we provide free valet bicycle parking > service to the town), but who knows? I don't think it makes much sense to > try and get much profit through this cafepress service, either - I don't > think the market would bear more than about 10% markup. Cafepress will > produce a basic shirt for about $15, and ya gotta really want the shirt to > spend much more than that for it, right? > > Anyway, I still love the way the website looks with the decobikes cruising > in on top, and I'd like to make a shirt like that. But if it isn't OK I'll > understand and do something else. Or if you have an idea for sharing > profits (but don't expect to get rich here?) let me know. Maybe you have > some idea of how these could be promoted in a way that benefits both you and > bikebedford.org? Is the link to VERGE sporting goods on your website a > significant source of income for you? > > Anyway, thanks for giving us permission to use the graphics on the website > originally. Some of the text (all of it?) is a little sterile (I'm not a > great judge of my own work) and it would be a real bore if those nice > graphics weren't there > > Joel