as of October 30, 2008
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First of all, thank you for taking the time to understand our copyrights! We want to help you be successful in your business.
Please remember that although you can show our vector images to your customers to sell for whatever finished price you'd like, you may not sell the copywritten digital design, in any format, at any time.
Our vector images may be downloaded, cut and sold in or as a finished product only. The image, as a finished product, may be sold online, through a home-based business, or in a storefront setting. (Exclusion: The image may NOT be used for a wholesale or retail stencil or embroidery/sewing design.) Also, pictures may be placed online showing the finished product for sell. We encourage you to watermark your "finished" pictures online so that they cannot be easily copied and misused by others. Auctiva is a wonderful watermarking service, especially for batch watermarking.
If you wish to create your own non-finished-product-jpgs, meaning that you show only the vector image, please watermark the pictures well so that they cannot be instantly replicated in one of the many "vectorizing" softwares available. With all the awesome digital technology there is, people can easily take a picture and instantly "vectorize" it, or recreate the very image we sell.
Alternatively, if you wish you use the pictures (jpgs) from our website for your business, just enlarge the jpg to it's largest size and save it to your hard drive. They are digitally safe and perfect for announcing new designs in blogs, single web pages, websites, and emails.
Our catalogs may be placed on websites as downloadable PDF files or as viewable JPGS, and emailed to third-party customers. All catalogs that are electronically transmitted MUST have a copyright showing on its pages. If a picture of a catalog page is placed online, it must include this copyright in the picture. Our name does not have to show, but the copyright information on the catalog page MUST show at all times.
What may NOT be sold in any format, is the electronic version of the image. For instance, the image may not be sold (in part or in whole) as a digital item online or on a CD, converted to another digital format, or sold or distributed through any electronic media. We respectfully ask that you DO NOT share or trade your digital purchases with others.
Also, our images may NOT be part of a printed document for sale, even if it’s just to recover printing costs. Yes, any catalog that shows our images must be always be available at no charge. If you wish to create your own catalog that includes our images, pictures must be watermarked with your business name or a marking of some kind, so that the pictures cannot be instantly cropped, scanned, "vectorized", and replicated.
Should there be any questions, whatsoever, about the usage of our vector artwork, please ask. Otherwise, ENJOY our designs for the time and energy they are meant to save you, and visit us often to see what’s new and exciting!
Please note: The online copyright notice takes presidence over all dated copyrights that accompany collections and zipped folders.
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