Roman Atwood lashes out at Target for allegedly ripping off his slogan Roman Atwood, YouTube \/ TechCrunch, TargetPopular YouTuber and family vlogger Roman Atwood is known for his positive \u2018Smile More\u2019 slogan, which appears on his custom apparel \u2013 but a retail giant may have ripped off the phrase in a big way. Atwood uploaded a Tweet on April 4, appearing to accuse major retailer Target of using both his slogan and design for their own clothing. \u201cYo Target, talk soon,\u201d Atwood wrote, coupled with a screenshot that showed multiple photos that fans had taken of a crop top at the store. The clothing featured a \u2018Smile More\u2019 phrase emblazoned on its front \u2013 as well as Atwood\u2019s signature \u201csmile\u201d line underneath the words. Many fans are calling for the YouTuber to take legal action against the store, while others don\u2019t fancy Atwood\u2019s chances against the massive company. \u201cAbsolutely no offense to Roman, but imagine a multi billionaire store against a millionaire,\u201d one fan wrote of the debacle. \u201cHe absolutely has plenty of money to defend the case,\u201d another argued. \u201cIt\u2019s an extremely easy case to win. It\u2019s clear infringement\/copyright, he has a patent.\u201d Absolutely no offense Too Roman. But imagine a multi billionaire store against a millionaire..\u2014 \u0145\u012f\u010d\u00f8\u0142\u0105\u00ee (@Ma3rskJ3ns3n) April 4, 2019 Lolol he absolutely has plenty of money to defend the case. It\u2019s an extremely easy case to win. It\u2019s clear infringement\/copyright, he has a patent. \u2014 Brendan Davis:person_golfing: (@Brendan_D_Mirg) April 4, 2019 This wouldn\u2019t be the first time Target has been called out for copyright infringement, either; the company was similarly challenged by Latinx artist Felix d\u2019Eon in May 2018, after the retailer appeared to use one of his designs on a T-shirt without permission. \u201cTarget stole a design of mine and printed it on a T-shirt,\u201d d\u2019Eon said of the apparent theft. \u201cIs this how you support the queer Latinx community, Target, by stealing the art of a gay Mexican artist? I\u2019m curious to hear what you have to say!\u201d https:\/\/hiplatina.com\/latinx-artist-target-loteria\/Target appeared to admit wrongdoing in their response to the debacle, where they claimed that they respected \u201cthe design rights of others and expect our vendors to do the same\u201d and had \u201cremoved this shirt from our online assortment.\u201d Target\u2019s apparent infringement follows Atwood\u2019s charitable initiative to aid small Twitch streamers, taking $2 from every sale of his \u2018glitch\u2019 graphic tee and donating it to up and coming broadcasters on the platform. [Timestamp: 2:30 for mobile viewers] Target has yet to publicly respond to Atwood\u2019s Tweet at the time of writing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Roman Atwood lashes out at Target for allegedly ripping off his slogan Roman Atwood, YouTube \/ TechCrunch, TargetPopular YouTuber and family vlogger Roman Atwood is known for his positive \u2018Smile More\u2019 slogan, which appears on his custom apparel \u2013 but a retail giant may have ripped off the phrase in a big way. Atwood uploaded […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58498\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}