Free for a Fee

Perhaps the new theme would read something like: “This is dumb.” That’s because the Orwell estate is again flexing its intellectual property muscle, this time going after an Internet radio host who dared to sell T-shirts emblazoned with the number 1984. Cafe Press, where Josh Hadley was hawking the shirts, informed him Friday of an “Alleged IP Violation.” The online marketplace said it had received notice from the Orwell Estate of a copyright violation for using “George Orwell Quotes.” CafePress disabled the T-shirts from being displayed in Hadley’s CafePress shop.