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Riddick/Imageline Letter Forum / Re: What if 'Terms of Service" or "Usage" change
« on: March 12, 2009, 03:21:38 PM »
----Sometimes you need to simly apply 'common sense' and 'logic' to these questions, along with legal guidance. Have you noticed how many embroidery design publishers are now promoting print versions of their embroidery designs and competing openly and aggressively against the clip art developers------
Actually I have not seen anyone offering "printable" versions of their embroidery designs, unless it was a document that was mearly a thread chart to show you which colors were stitched out when. Not all programs interpret the colors correctly when designs get to the machines.
And truely unless you are a big company such as Dakota Collectables, Brother, or Bernina, I do not know any independant digitizer who is becoming independantly wealthy off their work. More like breaking even or losing money on their websites.
But I do know one clipart website who did not specify non usage of their clipart for embroidery, only for web templates or company logos or in a format where you could say copy the file as the original artwork and reuse again digitially. Now that they have decided to offer some of their more generic clipart that can be auto digitized without much thought or technique, they have changed their terms of services from what it was 2 yrs ago.
Unfortunately even having your lawyer give his interpretation of what he thinks someone means in their term of service, doesn't necessarily mean your lawyer is going to interpretet it right especially with language that reads ".etc" in a term of service. What .etc are you including in that? Or are you hoping to CYA by being so vague??
Actually I have not seen anyone offering "printable" versions of their embroidery designs, unless it was a document that was mearly a thread chart to show you which colors were stitched out when. Not all programs interpret the colors correctly when designs get to the machines.
And truely unless you are a big company such as Dakota Collectables, Brother, or Bernina, I do not know any independant digitizer who is becoming independantly wealthy off their work. More like breaking even or losing money on their websites.
But I do know one clipart website who did not specify non usage of their clipart for embroidery, only for web templates or company logos or in a format where you could say copy the file as the original artwork and reuse again digitially. Now that they have decided to offer some of their more generic clipart that can be auto digitized without much thought or technique, they have changed their terms of services from what it was 2 yrs ago.
Unfortunately even having your lawyer give his interpretation of what he thinks someone means in their term of service, doesn't necessarily mean your lawyer is going to interpretet it right especially with language that reads ".etc" in a term of service. What .etc are you including in that? Or are you hoping to CYA by being so vague??