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I hadn’t looked at the number of sales, and I wasn’t thinking about it portion-wise,”Robinson told the New York Times. This cycle of stories questioned whether or not Robinson violated copyright and intellectual property laws and whether or not these laws apply to social media sharing.

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Male first became aware that Green Box was producing shirts quoting his tweet in January, when a photo of a teen wearing the tee was retweeted over 87,000 times and liked 190,000 times.

I don’t remember exactly why I tweeted it, but it was mainly out of sadness and agitation—bigotry spreads like wildfire and that’s the last thing we need, especially in our political climate.

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Judging or analyzing these slogan tees can be helpful if they push the conversation forward, not if they sidetrack it. Choose your favorite Why Be Racist Sexist Homophobic-inspired shirt style: v-neck or crew neckline; short, baseball or long sleeve; slim or relaxed fit; light, mid, or heavy fabric weight.If you haven’t heard, Frank Ocean wore a T-shirt onstage over the weekend at Panorama Music Festival.

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Robinson and her team also used social media to source the now-famous quote, which they directly credit to a young man named Brandon who tweeted it in August 2015. At Ocean’s Panorama set, the singer wore a white shirt with black lettering that read, “Why be racist, sexist, homophobic or transphobic when you could just be quiet? And the fact that Robinson wanted to print his words and promote them, even for a small profit—what’s so wrong with that? The fact that Frank Ocean is contributing to this reality is surreal for me and I am eternally grateful. Less than a week after the T-shirt that Frank Ocean wore at New York’s Panorama Festival became a viral sensation, the shirt and its creator are now at the center of a debate over copyright, intellectual property and the ownership of tweets.Vogue may earn a portion of sales from products that are purchased through our site as part of our Affiliate Partnerships with retailers. We can be quick to judge a T-shirt with a political or controversial statement on it: Dior’s Maria Grazia Chiuri received some flack for using Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s “We Should All Be Feminists” quote on her Spring 2017 show tees, which resembled those of another no-name line. Since then, the tweet has received over 25K retweets, was printed on a viral t-shirt sure to sell out and was worn by — oh, yeah — Ocean. At that point, Male contacted Green Box, who told them they credited him on their Instagram before brushing him off.

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Choose your favorite Homophobic-inspired shirt style: v-neck or crew neckline; short, baseball or long sleeve; slim or relaxed fit; light, mid, or heavy fabric weight. In a statement to Complex, Robinson said, “It’s very exciting to see a queer icon like Frank Ocean giving a voice to marginalized groups and using his platform to raise awareness about social justice issues using one of our shirts.The situation mines a gray area in the realm of copyright ownership in the social media age, with tweets in a precarious position since copyright law doesn’t officially protect them from this type of appropriation. As he explains, “Social media is one of the most influential platforms for young people and things can spread so easily. As an openly gay teenager, Male was receiving a lot of discriminatory messages and out of general anger with people’s ignorance, he responded. The 18-year-old creator of the shirt, Kayla Robinson, cribbed the words from a 2015 tweet by 18-year-old Brandon Male. Prabal Gurung sent out models in slogan tees for his Fall 2017 finale; lauded by fashion editors, they were scrutinized by the larger media pool for their similarities to the original “The Future Is Female” iteration.