The story has since been picked up by the Washington Post and the Official Google Blog has a post on it too there was a lot of chatter about it on twitter too - #googlemayharm. The problem has been corrected - the internets will not harm your computer! Mashable is reporting that the problem was caused by a human error.
I was just checking to see what people were saying about Spreadshirt on Twitter and found this tweet that had been retweeted a few times linking to a shirt and shop from a European Spreadshirt shop partner about the whole event. I love that there is a t-shirt about this already and I really like how they used the different colors for the fonts. The shirt is available in white and black and there is also a sweatshirt too. I am not sure if they plan to open a Spreadshirt shop for the US or not.
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Lindsay Patross
Dave
Now we got an store for our US costumers at http://feedfunk.spreadshirt.com/
very funny idea, like it ;=)
Can you perhaps answer why the response on an order of one of these shirts are: “Unfortunately, we have to inform you that the design you selected (see below) is almost certainly protected by copyright. This portion of your order therefore cannot be processed.”
Try ordering it;
“Unfortunately, we have to inform you that the design you selected (see below) is almost certainly protected by copyright. This portion of your order therefore cannot be processed. “
I doubt it’s protected by copyright, or even trademark either. It doesn’t use Google’s logo just the name and multicolors. Is it the word google that is the problem?
I am looking into this issue right now with our service department - will get back to you as soon as I have more info.