Unless you've been hidden in a rock over the past week and missed the insane, hilarious and totally ridiculous Super Bowl halftime show last Sunday, you'll now that the performance saw the birth of a meme - but now, Left Shark's lawyers with Katy Perry are preventing sellers to create merchandise from the figure.

The Left Shark became a meme as one of Perry's back-up dancers, dressed as a shark during her performance at the major sports event, seemed un-choreographed and generally at a loss as to what he was supposed to do.

Considering the Super Bowl halftime show is probably the most sought-after performance in the world, more often than not, memes are born from it, but it seems that the Left Shark's lawyers with Katy Perry don't like the idea that other people besides the "Roar" singer are profiting from the figure.

According to BBC, the Left Shark lawyers Katy Perry issue came about earlier this week, when the singer's legal team contacted Fernando Sosa, a man who sells 3D printing designs, so he'd remove the Left Shark image from the directory of blueprints available in his site.

3D printing is a spreading phenomenon that has caused a lot of headaches for those representing copyrighted material, due to the fact that with a simple design, anyone with a 3D printer can render the image into reality and sell it. It's also incredibly cheap and its costs are falling, so the Left Shark lawyers Katy Perry issue comes at no surprise.

As Gigaom reports, Sosa's designs were put on sale at $24.99 not long after Perry's halftime performance, and just last week he received a cease-and-desist letter.

"It looks like dictators and world leaders like Putin and Kim Jong Un or Chris Christie are much easier to deal with," Sosa said to Time Magazine, in regards of the Left Shark lawyers Katy Perry situation.