Intellectual Property Policy

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This Intellectual Property Policy explains what Loud Mesh owns on loudmesh.shop, what you may and may not do with it, how we keep other people’s names and marks off our jerseys, and how to report a trademark, design, name or likeness concern. Copyright notices have their own step-by-step process on our DMCA page.

The short version: every print we sell is an original Loud Mesh design, and the personalisation fields are for your crew, not for anyone else’s team, league, brand or character. That rule protects rights owners, and it protects you too, because a jersey that borrows someone else’s mark is a jersey nobody should have to wear to the lake.

Ownership and rights at a glance

  • All prints, their Low, Mid and Max volumes, product photos and page text are original Loud Mesh work.
  • We sell original designs only. We do not sell licensed or look-alike team, league, brand or character products.
  • We refuse team, league, club, college, player, brand and character names in Name & Number fields.
  • You are welcome to share links to our pages; please do not copy our prints or photos.
  • Report a concern to support@loudmesh.shop with the subject “IP concern”. We reply within 24 hours on business days.

1. What belongs to Loud Mesh

The following are owned by Loud Mesh and protected by copyright, trademark and other intellectual property laws:

  • The prints. Every all-over print in the store, including each of its three printed volumes. Low (dial 1 to 3) is small, sparse and uses two close tones; Mid (4 to 7) is medium with two contrasting colours; Max (8 to 10) is big and dense with four bright colours. Each volume is its own artwork drawn from the same idea.
  • Product names and print names such as Confetti Static, Checker Wave, Palm Fader, Balloon Pop and Loud Argyle, as they are used for our products.
  • The Loud Mesh name and logo and the way we present the volume dial.
  • Product photos, including the separate photo for each volume and the live Name & Number preview on the product photo.
  • Written content: product descriptions, the size and planning guidance, help pages and policies.
  • The site itself: page layout, graphics and code written for loudmesh.shop.

2. What you are welcome to do

  • Browse, and print pages for your own use, for example printing the planning steps to stick on the fridge before a reunion.
  • Share links to products and pages anywhere: the group chat, an email to your crew, a trip planning document.
  • Show the product photo of the volume you want when you ask your crew to vote. Linking to the product page is the easiest way.
  • Quote a short extract from a page with a link back to it.
  • Wear your jersey, photograph it and post your own photos of yourself and your crew wearing it. Those photos are yours.

3. What is not allowed

  • Copying, tracing or re-creating our prints, at any volume, to print them yourself or sell them, including on marketplaces, print-on-demand services or other stores.
  • Using our product photos or descriptions to list products elsewhere.
  • Making products or derivative designs from our prints without written permission.
  • Using the Loud Mesh name, logo or something confusingly similar in a way that suggests a connection with us that does not exist.
  • Scraping or bulk-downloading the site with automated tools, other than normal search engine indexing.

If you would like to use our content in a way not listed above, ask first (section 10). Many requests, such as a feature in a wedding planning blog, are easy to say yes to.

4. Original designs only: how we keep other people’s rights off our jerseys

4.1 Our prints

We design every print ourselves around ordinary visual ideas: confetti, checkers, argyle, palm shapes, balloons and colour fades. We do not use team colours combined with a team’s marks, league crests, brand logos, cartoon characters, festival names or artist names, and we do not design prints to look like any of them. We do not sell licensed merchandise of any kind, so nothing on the site is presented as connected to a team, league, club, college, brand or event.

4.2 What you type in the Name & Number fields

Our three Name & Number jerseys let you add a back name of up to 12 characters, a number from 0 to 99, Block or Rounded lettering and an optional front trip line of up to 16 characters. These fields exist for your crew: first names, nicknames, a birthday number, a trip line such as a lake weekend and a year. We refuse:

  • the names, nicknames or abbreviations of real sports teams, leagues, clubs and colleges;
  • the names of real players or other public figures used to suggest a connection;
  • brand names, product names and slogans belonging to other companies;
  • names of characters from films, shows, games or books;
  • the names of real festivals, artists, venues or events;
  • any text that is hateful, threatening or unlawful.

A friend’s own name is fine even when it happens to match a famous person, as long as the jersey is about your friend and not presented as that person’s jersey. A number on its own is always fine. If you are not sure whether something is allowed, email us before you order and we will tell you.

4.3 What happens if an order breaks the rule

We print exactly what is typed and we do not send a proof. If we see that an item contains text we cannot print, we email you. You can send different text within the 24-hour change window described on Cancel or Change an Order, or we cancel that item and refund it in full. The rest of your crew’s order goes ahead unchanged.

Examples of Name & Number text we print and text we refuse
FieldWe printWe refuse
Back nameYour friend’s first name or nickname, such as PRIYA or BIG TA real team’s nickname or a cartoon character’s name
NumberAny number from 0 to 99, such as 40 for a 40th birthdayNothing, as long as it is 0 to 99
Trip lineA trip or date line, such as LAKE WEEKEND 26A real festival name, a brand slogan or a league name

4.4 Roster text that works every time

Most crews never come near this rule, because the best jerseys are about the people wearing them. A few ideas that keep the roster easy:

  • Use the number for the occasion. A 40th birthday crew can put 40 on every Checker Wave Name & Number jersey and each person’s own name on the back.
  • Use the trip line for the where and when. Sixteen characters fit a short place word and a year, such as a lake name you made up for the house or simply REUNION 26.
  • Use nicknames your crew already uses. The group chat nickname is almost always better than anything borrowed.
  • Golf trip crews: instead of the name of a real course or club, try the foursome’s own name, or each player’s handicap as the number.

Collect the roster as name, number, size and volume for each person, check the spelling with each person directly, and enter it carefully. Our FAQs and Help Center cover the practical side of ordering for a group.

4.5 Why we hold this line

Team, league and brand names are usually registered trademarks, and characters are protected by copyright and trademark. Printing them without permission would infringe the owner’s rights, even on a single jersey for a private trip. It would also put our customers in the awkward spot of wearing something that should not have been made. Keeping every print original and every name personal is how we make sure nobody’s crew jersey ends up in a dispute.

5. Our trademarks and other people’s marks

Loud Mesh and our logo are our trademarks. Where other names or marks are mentioned on the site, for example the name of the payment provider on the payment step, they belong to their owners, and their appearance does not mean that the owner endorses us or that we are connected with them.

6. Telling us about an intellectual property concern

If you believe a product, print, photo or text on our site, or a jersey made from text a customer typed, uses your trademark, design right, name or likeness without permission, email support@loudmesh.shop with the subject line “IP concern” and include:

  1. Your name and contact details, and your relationship to the rights owner, such as owner, employee or legal representative.
  2. The right you believe is affected, for example a trademark registration number and the country where it is registered, or a description of the design.
  3. The address of each product page or page on our site that concerns you, and which volume if it applies.
  4. A short explanation of why you believe it infringes your rights.
  5. A statement that the information you provide is accurate and that you are the rights owner or are authorised to act for them.

For copyright in artwork, photos or text, please use the formal process on our DMCA page, which asks for a few extra statements required by law.

7. What happens next

We reply within 24 hours on business days to confirm we have your report. We then look at it ourselves and compare it with the material on our site. If we need more information, we ask you before making a decision. If the concern is valid, we remove or change the product or page, stop production of anything affected and confirm this to you by email. If we decide the material does not infringe, we explain our reasons.

Because every item is made to order, removing a product stops it from being made. If a customer has an unmade order for something we remove, we contact them ourselves; you will not be asked to deal with our customers.

8. If you find a Loud Mesh print somewhere else

Original prints get copied. If you see one of our prints, any of its volumes, our product photos or our descriptions on another site or marketplace, please email us the link. A short message is enough; you do not need to fill in a formal report. We follow up with the site concerned ourselves. If you bought something elsewhere that looks like ours and it disappointed you, we are sorry, and we can only help with orders placed on loudmesh.shop, which you can look up on Order Tracking.

9. Ideas, suggestions and crew photos

Crews sometimes email us ideas, like a print for a cruise crew or a new trip line format. If you send an idea, we may use it freely without paying you, but we never publish your name or personal information with it without asking. If you send a photo of your crew in their jerseys, it stays yours; we will not put it on the site unless you give us permission first, and you can withdraw that permission later.

10. Permission requests and contact

To ask permission to use a print, photo or page, or for any question about this policy, email support@loudmesh.shop and tell us what you would like to use and where. Support is email only. Our postal address is Loud Mesh, 20233 Bitter Root Drive, Porter, TX 77365, US. See also our Terms of Service, which set the rules for the personalisation fields, and Contact Us for everything else.