Just an informative note on free designs. Designs, while given freely by digitisers for you to use, are not yours to share or give away to anyone else. You may give away your projects, with ....
the designs on them, you may even sell your
projects, but the RIGHTS, to share the
actual embroidery design, remain at all
times with the digitiser who created the
design.
You may share the Digitiser's contact
details or if they have a web site you may
share a link to their website, but if you
share the designs you are guilty of BREACH
of COPYRIGHT and leave yourself open to
prosecution.
I hope this clarifies what you can and can
NOT do with the designs given to you by
digitisers.
hugs n roses, Meganne
51766 I know this to be the case, and I follow the rules, but I don't understand. If a design is offered for free, why does it matter who passes it along? Maybe someone can clarify for me?
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22871 Meg, can you make a copy of this and/or tag it in the tutorial section.....it needs to be a permanent information item.;)
56778 Thank you for bringing this up. I feel very strongly about this too. It is enough for us, that cannot digitize, and may sell the product that it was used on, to use it. I now download these, when I do, by having a file in that persons name, or the site, typed in. This way I can give it to anybody who asks the website's name, or the person's name, and they can go to that site themselves. Huggs and flowers to you
7823 Thanks for clarifiying this Meg. We need to keep this post up for a while so that new people can get a better nderstanding of the system. *2U
32851 U know Meg this probable needs to b run more often than it is . We have so many newbees embroidering now & I'm sure a lot of them do not know this & appreciate the heads up before they unknowingly run into copyright problems. Thank U Lillian *
by meganne 10 Mar 2009
Yes Lillian, I suppose it can be confusing
for some people who think, INCORRECTLY,
that because designs have been digitised
for them, that they own the designs.
Even some 'Not so New'
embroiderers can be caught out by this.
We wouldn't want ANYONE to do the
wrong thing by any of the digitisers and
cause animosity, especially through
misunderstanding.
Hugs n roses, M
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69103 Glad to see that repeated again as there are always (new) people asking for desigms, missing letters etc.
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Freebies are mostly given as samples of the digitizer's ability. It's a form of attracting buyers. You take that away if you send them along to others. And even if the designs given away by cuties who don't have a website, they love to have a respons and some recognition.