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Martin Rowson on Picturegate

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Martin Rowson of the Guardian just sent me his contribution to Fústar’s nudie Cowen postcard exhibition.

The exhibition is open to everyone. Send us your postcards!

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Tags: Brian Cowen, Cartoons, Gordon Brown, art, caricatures, fustar, martin rowson, picturegate by Allan
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German Law and the Disappearing T-shirts

(UPDATE: This has been resolved. The T-shirts are once again available from Irish Election via Spreadshirt.
Spreadshirt has outlined its position in the comments below.)

The Picturegate t-shirts went missing this morning from Irish Election’s Spreadshirt shop.

Here’s why:

Hello Allen,

Many thanks for your email.

Unfortunately I have to tell you that we cannot release the motif at this shop.
I know that you are the copyright holder of the specific desigs. But they infringe the personal rights of Mr. Brian Cowen.
According to German law it is not allowed to use pictures of famous persons without permission. This applies to satiric or caricature too.
The use of such designs can lead to very high fines. We hope you understand.

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

Best regards

Spreadshirt Service

I really don’t know what to say.

EDIT: Something smells bad here. I’ve just pulled all these images from Spreadshirt’s own shop:
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And there’s plenty of a sexual nature too.
I’ve emailed them back for clarification.

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Tags: picturegate, t-shirts by Allan
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Filthy Durty Postcards: Badgers, Blu-Tack & Picturegating

Fústar’s been on to me. He wants everyone to send him a nudie postcard of Brian Cowen:

Ok. I hereby want to encourage every single person reading this to send me (via post) a nude Brian Cowen postcard (ask for my address and it will be given). If we gather enough together I’ll find a way to exhibit them publicly. If some fail to arrive then we’ll also have “postalgate” to concern ourselves with. This is not a joke. I genuinely want to do it.

via Fustar – Recycling Cultural Waste Since 2005 // Filthy Durty Postcards: Badgers, Blu-Tack & Picturegating.

You can contact him at fustar[at]fustar.info for his address. Either print mine or Conor’s on a bit of card or even better, make up your own!