Check out the new Free Culture T-Shirts designed by Kirby Bukowski:

![FC T White][1]

[CC-BY-SA 3.0][2]

![FC T Magenta][3]

[CC-BY-SA 3.0][2]


We're ordering a small batch of t-shirts for the [Free Culture X 2013
conference][4] at New York Law School on April 20th! We'll be selling
them for $20 a pop, and all volunteers get one for free.


![FC T example][5]

[CC-BY-SA 3.0][2]

The design is an adaptation of the album cover of Joy Division's Unknown
Pleasures. The image was adapted by Disney when they [released a T-shirt
in 2012][6]. Disney pulled the T-shirt from the market for fear of
copyright infringement. Kirby did a bit of research into the Unknown
Pleasures album art, and decided that it image of pulsars is likely to
be in the public domain. Adam Capriola of SixPrizes did a [pretty great
job tracking the history of the pulsar art work][7].

We received some legitimate criticism about the company our previous
round of t-shirts came from (American Apparel)  being guilty of bad
labor practices including union-busting, repeated sexual offenses on
behalf of the CEO, and exploitative hiring/firing practices. For this
reason, we made sure these are [union made, fair trade, etc.] and all
future clothing will be sourced exclusively from worker-owned
cooperatives!

The designs are licensed CC-BY-SA and the SVG source files are available
here to modify in inkscape.

   [1]: http://freeculture.org/files/2013/04/Free-Culture_Unknown-
Pleasures-White.png

   [2]: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/us/

   [3]: http://freeculture.org/files/2013/04/Free-Culture_Unknown-
Pleasures-Magenta.png

   [4]: http://fcx2013.org

   [5]: http://freeculture.org/files/2013/04/freecultureTexample.jpg

   [6]: http://boingboing.net/2012/01/25/disney-store-offers-
mickey-t-s.html

   [7]: http://adamcap.com/2011/05/19/history-of-joy-division-unknown-
pleasures-album-art/

URL: 
http://freeculture.org/blog/2013/04/12/new-free-culture-t-shirts-unknown-pleasuresunknown-freedom/
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