I have a cubist painting of a guitar as one of my designs. I tagged it with Picasso because it looks very similar to his style. It's NOT a Picasso painting, but can I still get cupped for using that tag.
I took the tag out, but I'd like to use it again, without the fear of being cuped.

Can you get cup'ed for tags?

I know they remove some words from being searched on.

Cuping tags may be a very efficient way of weeding designs out without having to visually confirm thier content.

What would happen if you did Picassoish I wonder?

I edited because I didn't realize you were asking a question in your first statement.

You can get cupped for tags, yes. Whether you could get cupped for that tag I wouldn't care to speculate. You can get cupped for things that are legal but against policy. You can also not get cupped and still be in violation. The legalities of using that particular word require familiarity with international laws. There are plenty of words used to describe Picasso's style.

Thanx, Ive been wondering about tags for awhile. I'm using the word cubism instead.

you can be cup'd by tags yes but you can also have cups released if you can show that you were only using the tag not the image

example if you tagged the image "ford" or "Chevy" but yout image was just text that said "i love big cars" - your not infringing on ford or chevy's trademarks with your image - but trying to tag it ford/chevy may get you an auto-cup while they investigate your image....or until you contact them and show it is really your own image

Is someone allowed to have the word pablo picasso on a t-shirt that does not use anything from pablo picasso?

The legalities of using that particular name require familiarity with international laws.

I got CUPed recently, and when I asked for clarification I was told by CP that it was the combination of the content of the design and the tags that caused it to get flagged.

I looked again and had to agree that I was dancing pretty close to the edge. Common sense seems to be the way forward - if you think "I'll be lucky not to get CUP'd for this one", chances are you'll get CUP'd for it.

I don't know about Picasso's artwork or any similarity being a reason for CUP, but my computer has a software program in it called Picasso. Most likely trademarked or copyrighted.

Just a thought.

janelle

Janelle, I think the program you're talking about is Picasa? Not Picasso?