Useless Mug ⇥

Marco Arment created a cute mug with a fictional, yet typical one-star Instapaper review. He put it on Zazzle, and 116 people also decided it was hilarious. Then:

After receiving 116 orders for these mugs today, Zazzle canceled all of them, telling every customer (but not me, yet) that it’s an acceptable-use violation: “Design contains an image or text that may be subject to copyright.” This was just something fun, and I don’t have time to battle them on this. Now I just know that Zazzle sucks, and I’ll never do business with them again.

“May” be subject to copyright? What does that even mean? Marco owns the copyright on the text.