One thing you didn't mention is that full POD license allows you to upload without any changes as long as you keep your membership active to Creative Fabrica. If you ever cancel you have to remove everything that has been uploaded without changes. However you can leave anything up that you have made substantial changes to even if you cancel. Just a side point to help stay out of trouble. Thanks for the video!
Also, If you buy graphics individually with full POD licence you can keep your uploads forever. However, monthly subscription is cheaper if you use the site a lot. One thing I don't understand though is why on some graphics it says Commercial License, is that the same as Basic POD? If it is why CF is not staying with the same wording cuz it confuses people
Kind of on each person to read and understand what they are signing up for. If someone decides not to do the research, then it kinda just sucks to be them :/ Point of this video was Basic vs Full and it had a minor (10 seconds?) mention about the Subscription.
Disagree. As others have pointed out, all access subscription covers “commercial”, but when you go to the subscription help page it is not clear at all whether the subscription includes basic pod.
Really appreciate this extra info on the license types! I'm literally paralyzed with fear of committing a misstep with my accounts & losing all my efforts to a ban. Thank you again for the info.
Thank you so much! I made some printables which I had planned to use personally but also sell later. So, before uploading them to my shop and per your suggestion after watching your video, I did email creative fabrica, attached the items I had made and a link to the graphic I had used, and asked them if the way I was using it was in line with their license agreement for commercial use under my subscription. They were super nice and emailed me back the very next day, and let me know that I, in fact, did not comply with the licensing agreement, and let me know what would need to change in order for me to be incompliance. Overall, an excellent conversation, and very educational with a super nice person at Creative Fabrica. Had I actually uploaded the item I had made and put it up for sale, I would have violated their license agreement and not even known it. Thank you so much for your video. I wouldn't have reached out to them had I not watched this, because I thought i was in compliance with their licensing terms. I'm so glad you posted this!!!!
😆😱🤪 I thought in my sophomoric knowledge that this video was about pod as a hobby vrs going all in full time pod. 😆 whoopsie Great explanation of how that works. I like how you try to guide us newbies away from the copy and paste mentality to becoming better and truly explore what it means to be an artist 🎨 Really enjoy your content.
Some illustrations that are on CF can not be edited in a way any license would allow to be resold on another platform, they are on CF to be used only to be sold to the end user (to use in the book or on product. Perfect examples are my mazes. People can use them in books or make tshirt with them, but they can not add decorations to the file and sell the digital file.
They can be resold as digital if they get added value, not being key element and are cropped in a way that buyer can not extract original artwork that came from Creative Fabrica. But if the seller on CF is selling his illustrations as PNG only then buyer on CF is limited and can't do much. Or of product is too specific, like mazes or sudoku puzzles. There is nothing user could do to those files to make them unique ro sell them as digital.
Even with the full POD license it only applies to physical items and not digital. Anything digital needs to be modified regardless of the license type. The problem is people are still taking the designs from CF and selling them as digital items. Which is giving even more people access to those designs and is not in compliance with the license agreement.
I have a yearly subscription to Creative Fabrica and have noticed that many graphics will either say "commercial usage allowed" and/or "Full POD Usage" ... if it only says "commercial usage" ...does this mean I must modify it to use it? Sorry, the wording is just a little different and this is something that has confused me for a while.
hey! How about full POD considering digital products f.ex. post templates or presantation template? Would be enough to change pictures, fonts just whole vibe of the product and sell it as as an instant download? Thank you!
Thank you for all your useful videos. Could please explain what are the difference between Photoshop and Affinity designer ? Which one is the best for POD?
I downloaded 10 FREE products with a risk-free trial, inckuding 2 Full POD and 7 Commercial-use phone case mockups. I haven't used the last download yet. Can i utilize these downloads without a suscription?
If you download a free design (like from the freebies), it is yours forever. If you pulled 10 designs from the trial subscription, then you are not supposed to use those designs once the subscription ends. If you significantly modify the design to make it an original asset, then it is yours forever.
Hi I have just found your channel and its great, thank you. Can I ask please if its better to upload designs that are black and white or colour or does it really matter.
It would depend on what the customer wants, so I would say upload both (having 3-5 variants is an easy way to have a much larger inventory of design for sale).
I'm thinking of getting an annual subscription from CF. What's on my mind is, how can I tell if the design I want to download is a full pod or a basic pod? Are they all included in the scope of full pod with the annual subscription?
Yes when you view a design, if it says “Full POD” then you can use it as is. Otherwise, the general idea is that you use CF assets to make original designs (you would alter or add to the design). So everything is included, but the designs marked commercial license means you are supposed to use the asset in a larger design.
Hi, I really appreciate your videos! Can you help me if I have a home workshop where I make shirts, is the basic commercial licence enough for selling my products with exact non-modified designs which I did download with my all access? And I can do it with the POD and the full POD licence as well? Is it okay to sell them in my country in my own webshop? I believe I can because it is not POD. I am not sure because it is too good to be true. Thank you in advance!
Hey there - yes basic commercial is exactly what you want if you are selling physical goods (like you are making the product yourself). Look here (specifically at “physical end products”): www.creativefabrica.com/subscription-license/
@@zenwatercooler Thanks for the answer! I have reached CF via e-mail and they were so helpful and clarified all my questions. So that's exactly right! Have a nice day! :)
Yes you can purchase an individual design and then you can use it forever. It's the same with the freebies - if you download a free design, you can use it forever.
I'm sorry, I know you answered this, but I want to be sure I heard correct. I can purchase a design with POD license and upload the design as a digital design on etsy without making any changes to it and resell the design as a png as it is?
Hi there - no there is no license that allows selling the png file. POD means Print on Demand - so the licenses allow either the sale of a physical product (like a shirt) with the design (modified) or the sale of a physical product without modification.
did I get it right? if there stands "full POD usage allowed" I don't have to modify the design and when i subscribe I always get license for the design in case I need it??
Yes you got it exactly: "full POD" means it is yours and you can use it with no modifications. The Full POD License is especially created for Print on Demand users. You can take the assets and with no or minimal modifications create items that you sell on Print on Demand sites such as Redbubble, Merch by Amazon, Teepublic, etc.
It's a good point - there's no internet police who will come to your house and arrest you. Like anything, the terms and conditions for any website are listed and any business is hoping that users will abide by the terms and conditions.
What does this mean? Especially Number 3. WITH FULL POD PRODUCTS YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED TO 1.Upload actual font files to POD sites. 2.Make the digital files available for anyone to download, other then uploading it to the POD site for selling. 3.Keep selling Full POD files without modification after you end your subscription. When your subscription is ended you need to remove the Full POD files from all POD sites. If you use fonts, or make modifications to a design so it falls under Basic POD, this does not apply and you can keep selling after your subscription ends.
If you go with "Full POD" and you have a subscription, then if you end the subscription, you are supposed to pull down your designs. (So you aren't permitted to buy the subscription for one month only, upload a million billion designs and then cancel the subscription). You are supposed to keep the subscription in tandem with the uploaded (unmodified) designs.
One thing you didn't mention is that full POD license allows you to upload without any changes as long as you keep your membership active to Creative Fabrica. If you ever cancel you have to remove everything that has been uploaded without changes. However you can leave anything up that you have made substantial changes to even if you cancel. Just a side point to help stay out of trouble. Thanks for the video!
Also, If you buy graphics individually with full POD licence you can keep your uploads forever. However, monthly subscription is cheaper if you use the site a lot. One thing I don't understand though is why on some graphics it says Commercial License, is that the same as Basic POD? If it is why CF is not staying with the same wording cuz it confuses people
Kind of on each person to read and understand what they are signing up for. If someone decides not to do the research, then it kinda just sucks to be them :/
Point of this video was Basic vs Full and it had a minor (10 seconds?) mention about the Subscription.
Disagree. As others have pointed out, all access subscription covers “commercial”, but when you go to the subscription help page it is not clear at all whether the subscription includes basic pod.
@@kristinashumadieva1529I tottally agree. Confuses me. Thank you for bring it here.
Really appreciate this extra info on the license types! I'm literally paralyzed with fear of committing a misstep with my accounts & losing all my efforts to a ban. Thank you again for the info.
Thank you so much! I made some printables which I had planned to use personally but also sell later. So, before uploading them to my shop and per your suggestion after watching your video, I did email creative fabrica, attached the items I had made and a link to the graphic I had used, and asked them if the way I was using it was in line with their license agreement for commercial use under my subscription. They were super nice and emailed me back the very next day, and let me know that I, in fact, did not comply with the licensing agreement, and let me know what would need to change in order for me to be incompliance. Overall, an excellent conversation, and very educational with a super nice person at Creative Fabrica. Had I actually uploaded the item I had made and put it up for sale, I would have violated their license agreement and not even known it. Thank you so much for your video. I wouldn't have reached out to them had I not watched this, because I thought i was in compliance with their licensing terms. I'm so glad you posted this!!!!
Thank you for the video 🙏🏼 I always go for full POD.
😆😱🤪 I thought in my sophomoric knowledge that this video was about pod as a hobby vrs going all in full time pod. 😆 whoopsie
Great explanation of how that works. I like how you try to guide us newbies away from the copy and paste mentality to becoming better and truly explore what it means to be an artist 🎨
Really enjoy your content.
Heads-up, Thank you for thinking all British Bulldogs are ‘Hooligans’!! Love from a British follower 👍🤗😂😂😂
Some illustrations that are on CF can not be edited in a way any license would allow to be resold on another platform, they are on CF to be used only to be sold to the end user (to use in the book or on product. Perfect examples are my mazes. People can use them in books or make tshirt with them, but they can not add decorations to the file and sell the digital file.
Yes agreed - there's nothing on Creative Fabrica that would indicate that any designs can be resold as digital.
They can be resold as digital if they get added value, not being key element and are cropped in a way that buyer can not extract original artwork that came from Creative Fabrica. But if the seller on CF is selling his illustrations as PNG only then buyer on CF is limited and can't do much. Or of product is too specific, like mazes or sudoku puzzles. There is nothing user could do to those files to make them unique ro sell them as digital.
Even with the full POD license it only applies to physical items and not digital. Anything digital needs to be modified regardless of the license type. The problem is people are still taking the designs from CF and selling them as digital items. Which is giving even more people access to those designs and is not in compliance with the license agreement.
Hey Mr Cooler, great info as usual Thanks
I have a yearly subscription to Creative Fabrica and have noticed that many graphics will either say "commercial usage allowed" and/or "Full POD Usage" ... if it only says "commercial usage" ...does this mean I must modify it to use it? Sorry, the wording is just a little different and this is something that has confused me for a while.
Have you found the answer to this?
hey!
How about full POD considering digital products f.ex. post templates or presantation template? Would be enough to change pictures, fonts just whole vibe of the product and sell it as as an instant download?
Thank you!
So I have a membership for creative fabrica. Can I use designs as is?
Thank you for all your useful videos. Could please explain what are the difference between Photoshop and Affinity designer ? Which one is the best for POD?
That is a great suggestion for a future video, let me see what I can do - thank you!
I downloaded 10 FREE products with a risk-free trial, inckuding 2 Full POD and 7 Commercial-use phone case mockups. I haven't used the last download yet. Can i utilize these downloads without a suscription?
If you download a free design (like from the freebies), it is yours forever. If you pulled 10 designs from the trial subscription, then you are not supposed to use those designs once the subscription ends. If you significantly modify the design to make it an original asset, then it is yours forever.
Hi I have just found your channel and its great, thank you. Can I ask please if its better to upload designs that are black and white or colour or does it really matter.
It would depend on what the customer wants, so I would say upload both (having 3-5 variants is an easy way to have a much larger inventory of design for sale).
I'm thinking of getting an annual subscription from CF. What's on my mind is, how can I tell if the design I want to download is a full pod or a basic pod? Are they all included in the scope of full pod with the annual subscription?
Yes when you view a design, if it says “Full POD” then you can use it as is. Otherwise, the general idea is that you use CF assets to make original designs (you would alter or add to the design). So everything is included, but the designs marked commercial license means you are supposed to use the asset in a larger design.
Hi, I really appreciate your videos! Can you help me if I have a home workshop where I make shirts, is the basic commercial licence enough for selling my products with exact non-modified designs which I did download with my all access? And I can do it with the POD and the full POD licence as well? Is it okay to sell them in my country in my own webshop? I believe I can because it is not POD. I am not sure because it is too good to be true. Thank you in advance!
Hey there - yes basic commercial is exactly what you want if you are selling physical goods (like you are making the product yourself). Look here (specifically at “physical end products”): www.creativefabrica.com/subscription-license/
@@zenwatercooler Thanks for the answer! I have reached CF via e-mail and they were so helpful and clarified all my questions. So that's exactly right! Have a nice day! :)
What if I never subscribed. Can I still use the designs from the website and modify them?
Yes you can purchase an individual design and then you can use it forever. It's the same with the freebies - if you download a free design, you can use it forever.
@@zenwatercooler Thank you !
I'm sorry, I know you answered this, but I want to be sure I heard correct. I can purchase a design with POD license and upload the design as a digital design on etsy without making any changes to it and resell the design as a png as it is?
Hi there - no there is no license that allows selling the png file. POD means Print on Demand - so the licenses allow either the sale of a physical product (like a shirt) with the design (modified) or the sale of a physical product without modification.
did I get it right? if there stands "full POD usage allowed" I don't have to modify the design and when i subscribe I always get license for the design in case I need it??
Yes you got it exactly: "full POD" means it is yours and you can use it with no modifications. The Full POD License is especially created for Print on Demand users. You can take the assets and with no or minimal modifications create items that you sell on Print on Demand sites such as Redbubble, Merch by Amazon, Teepublic, etc.
If i use a pod design that i modify but upload it after finishing my subscription, how can they know?
It's a good point - there's no internet police who will come to your house and arrest you. Like anything, the terms and conditions for any website are listed and any business is hoping that users will abide by the terms and conditions.
What does this mean? Especially Number 3.
WITH FULL POD PRODUCTS YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED TO
1.Upload actual font files to POD sites.
2.Make the digital files available for anyone to download, other then uploading it to the POD site for selling.
3.Keep selling Full POD files without modification after you end your subscription. When your subscription is ended you need to remove the Full POD files from all POD sites. If you use fonts, or make modifications to a design so it falls under Basic POD, this does not apply and you can keep selling after your subscription ends.
If you go with "Full POD" and you have a subscription, then if you end the subscription, you are supposed to pull down your designs. (So you aren't permitted to buy the subscription for one month only, upload a million billion designs and then cancel the subscription). You are supposed to keep the subscription in tandem with the uploaded (unmodified) designs.
Very nice.