Is this unoffical merchandise legal?

[Chara the Explorer]

So I decide to Google "Undertale Merchandise" because reasons, and the first result is from http://www.redbubble.com/shop/undertale+t-shirts, which is from what I can see selling a LOT of different Undertale themed shirts that I'm not convinced are official or legal.

Some of the shirts have fanart design which some may argue to be trasformative enough to be considered fair use, but a lot are straight sprite ports (even with text overlay) or fanart I've already seen elsewhere on the web.

So, yeah, I don't want to start making any straight-up accusations or anything, but I'm not sure if Toby would be happy with people selling t-shirts for double of what the actual game costs.

[entity]

Legal or not - it depends on your country

[dat_potatoe]

https://twitter.com/fwugradiation/status/649753684310642688

[Crystalitar]

Report or send the link to toby

[Chara the Explorer]

Originally posted by Crystalitar - NYEH:

Report or send the link to toby

I sent him a message on Twitter, as a reply to that link someone gave. Dunno how reliable that will be, but there you.

[ll_Vaporware_ll]

I wonder why he doesn't like fanmerch, though.
On one hand, he and a small team can moniter their mech, but on the other hand, they couldn't produce nearly enough to satisfy everyone. Not enough variety and such. I think the merch they have now is... Okay, but if we are being honest, i've seen, and you've likley all seen much better things made by fans.
The other thing being that while unofficial merch is unoffical, it is free advertising. You know when fans create fan manga of their own from a series they love? That's illegal, but most mangaka are completly alright with it because it is free advertising for them. You got fans so dedicated they'd spend loads of time drawing and writing for a fan manga just to say to the world how much they love the original series. Hell.... It's a brilliant idea. Free advertising ahoy.

[Strider VM]

TobyFox doesn't have problems with any kind of any unofficial/fan stuff, except for the ones you charge for. They are even fine with commision stuff. But not really selling unauthorized stuff.

[ll_Vaporware_ll]

Originally posted by StriderVM:

TobyFox doesn't have problems with any kind of any unofficial/fan stuff, except for the ones you charge for. They are even fine with commision stuff. But not really selling unauthorized stuff.

That's what I mean, though.
Admittedly, earning a little money on the side is a better incentive. It would cost money to say, print several dozen sheets of high quality stickers, along with the time it tajes to make said stickers. These people will never get rich from selling fanmerch, but some money to keep them going shouldn't be such a problem, right?