Rights and licensing

Before you order, you tick a box that says: I own this design, or I have permission to print it. We save the exact words you were shown and the day you were shown them, so nobody has to argue later about what the box said.

Not sure counts as an answer. There is a second box for that. Tick it instead and your file goes to a person who looks at it with you before anything is printed. We would rather have that conversation than have you guess.

Your word is evidence about you. It is not a check of the file, which is why we do one too.

Every upload runs past a screen that looks for the obvious problems. A hit does not stop anything on its own. It flags the job for a person, and a person decides. That decision gets signed and dated either way, cleared or refused.

What we refuse. Characters, logos, team marks, and shapes that belong to somebody else, whatever the file was called and wherever it came from. A design being free to download says nothing about who owns what is in it.

We would rather lose the order than print something that gets you or us a letter. If we turn a file down, we tell you why.

We did not draw them. Makers around the world did, and they shared them under licenses that allow selling prints. When a license runs out or is withdrawn, the designs it covered come off sale on their own. The shop cannot show you something the license no longer covers, because the same rule that builds every page checks it.

What a creator credit is. At the bottom of every product page there is a short block that names the designer, links to their page, names the license the design is shared under, and links to the original post. Most of those licenses require the maker to be named wherever the work goes, so that block is a condition of selling the print, not a nicety. A few designs are public domain, which asks for no credit at all. We still name the maker on those, and the block names the license either way so you can see which is which.

A license from a maker only covers what the maker actually owns. It cannot make a movie character fine to sell. Those are two separate checks here, and both have to pass.

We never go and grab a file that belongs to somebody else. Not once, not quietly. We look through the designs we already hold and tell you what we found, with the maker and the license in the reply.

When a license does not let us print a design for you, we say so and point you at the maker. You can download it yourself, or ask the maker whether they are happy for us to print it, and then send it to us. When a license says no, it says no.

Catalogs this size have mistakes in them. If you are a maker and something of yours is here that should not be, tell us and we look right away. The formal route is our DMCA policy, and a plain email to us works just as well.