Even though there's a growing business around the wares they create and parade, cosplayers rarely run into legal problems from the people who own the copyrights to the characters they're dressed up as. Which only makes this legal problem all the more absurd.

Seeing as cosplay is in essence a form of homage, and in many ways can be free promotion for a game/movie/comic/TV show, the people who make games/movies/comics/TV shows usually embrace the art. Something carpet companies could learn a thing or two about.

Cosplayer Cops Legal Threat From...Carpet CompanyS

At this year's DragonCon, props builder (and cosplayer) Harrison Krix made one of the standout outfits, designing a camouflage pattern that matched the carpet of the Marriott Marquis Atlanta, the hotel the convention was being held at. It was amazing, but carpet designers Couristan Inc. aren't happy.


Someone really needs to start running law classes on "perspective". Or, at the very least, remind people of the difference between the spirit of the law and the letter.

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