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Comment by Helen Williams on November 15, 2009 at 7:47pm

The website has a new name and with it comes an offer to card-making-world customers, i have emailled Adele with it.

www.cardmakingimages.co.uk

The images are in collections, each collection is sold only 30 times at either a Commercial or reseller license, whichever gets sold at what split is anyones guess.

There are single images which are available only for commercial use.

Thanks and if anyone sees anything that isnt quite right let me know.

Comment by Helen Williams on November 13, 2009 at 4:19pm

Thank you both i will have a look at those terms.

I am going to have collections of images of similar themes or flower for example or various versions of an image.

These will be Reseller Collections which can be sold AS IS or AS IS singles. These images can also be used within designs, templates or sheets and sold digitally or handmade.

I have decided to do it this way i am being the wholesaler lol so i don't have to deal with different licenses and worry about who is creating what and then selling what etc....

They will all fall under Limited Edition thinking 30 of each collection.

There will be Exclusive collections in the RESELLER PROGRAMME section more expensive as they will be one off's , these can either be sold AS IS or designers can buy them.

Any thoughts welcomed

There will then be single images for sale that don't belong in a collection......

I give up lol and i told my husband that if i didnt have it right in my head what i wanted by the end of today i was chucking them all in the bin lol so fingers crossed............

Comment by Anni on November 13, 2009 at 10:47am

Hi everyone
Just to add my thoughts to the commmercial license thread. In my experience having different license levels is quite a job. I am streamlining my license setup, because it is too clumsy. At the moment I have licenses per individual products with various pricepoints, depending on the size of the set.

Then I offered a "blanket license" with my CD collection and that is very popular. So now I am moving towards a blanket license but am still sorting out the details. I have a Terms of Condition page that is a bit of a tome! I sat down and tried to think of all sorts of situations and jotted them down. It took my hours if not days! If you want to have a look at it – I have the "abridged Reader's Digest" version first and then the longwinded full one following: )

Not everyone will need such a treatise, but I have had a long design career with a fair share of disputes and even court cases. Be very careful what you allow. My licenses are only for home bus. crafters who make the stuff themselves.

http://www.anniarts.com/hbc-license-terms-of-use.html


PLUS make sure you have a proper registry of license-holders. I keep tight control over this, because I do licensed products for companies too and need to know who has the rights to do what.

I have a dispute going on right this minute with a British company who shall remain nameless. So despite my vigilance, I have someone trying to manufacture my designs for a product beyond what we agreed upon.

Always retain full rights over all of your designs. I know of what I speak.
So to summarize – don't make it too complicated for you to monitor or for crafters to figure out which license to buy.

Thats my thought of the day
Love
Anni

Comment by Debbie Gibbons on November 13, 2009 at 10:04am

Hi Helen,
Will have a good browse tonight. Sorry not had chance yet as so much going on. Still having major problems with the website which has been going on for 2 weeks now and really starting to take it's toll. I love the floral images so will definetly be purchasing some of those in the very near future!
Debbie x

Comment by Anni on November 11, 2009 at 11:07am

Hi everyone
Anni here. Just joined (thanks for notifying me Adele) and haven't set up my page yet. I'm a professional designer/illustrator and started to design a special line of products for crafters a while ago.

I have a webshop selling my printable crafts http://www.anniarts.com
and I really want to network in Europe/UK as my focus so far has been the American market. It just happened that way, no specific reason. If you have a website and want to have another income stream, I have two affiliate products paying 50% commisions. The one is my printable crafts club which has been very popular with my subscribers before it went public (I have just added it to Clickbank recently). Nice recurring monthly income there for affiliates and I can supply whatever grpaphics you need. The other affiliate product is a craft ebook and templates to rework used xmas and greeting cards. I will be adding all products to an afiliate programme soon, but most products except weddings are already in the club.

(So Adele there are two products for your affiliate listing.)

I am investigating reseller programmes, but it just seems to me as if designers really sell themselves short on these. What do you think?

Best regards to you all
Anni

Comment by Wendi G on November 1, 2009 at 9:49am

Hi I'm Wendy and the owner and Designer of Ooh La La Creations
and I live in France, We sell Craft Cd's and Digital Downloads, We have an on line Website/Shop www.ooh-la-la-creations.com where most of our business comes from. We also sell at Craft Fairs in France and I am busy getting ready for this year. We hope to come over to the UK next year and do some of the craft fairs there. I also make Cards and sell them in our local Tobac and love any sort of crafts We have a Challenge Blog and I have my own personal blog where you can see many of our designs from the Cd's
and a Gallery for DT members and customers. Next year we hope to move and open a Bricks and morter shop which I am very excited about, Crafting has taken off in France only over the last couple of years here.
www.oohlalacraftyblog.blogspot.com
www.ooh-la-la-creationschallenges.blogspot.com
Well I will stop waffling and look forward to getting to know you all
and learning and sharing
Wendi

Comment by Adele (Admin) on October 29, 2009 at 7:41pm

Sell AS IS = Reseller License
Sell as part of their design = Commercial License

...so you can offer (like I am doing) a Reseller License +Commercial Use, so that your customer can a) sell the item on their store and also b) use the item to create with (e.g. co-ordinating papers etc)

Anadin? Valium more like LOL

Comment by Helen Williams on October 29, 2009 at 7:35pm

lol.....just taken 2 anadin, i have confused myself today doing research...

What i offer at the moment is a commercial license then as i allow people to sell the products they MAKE using my images...

What i am going to be doing is offering the images for sale to people who will then sell the image itself either as is or part of their deisgn, this being under the reseller license..

Then i have options of :

Comment by Adele (Admin) on October 29, 2009 at 7:31pm

Debbie sums it up perfectly!

Comment by Adele (Admin) on October 29, 2009 at 7:16pm

Try remember...

Reseller = license to sell AS IS
Commercial Use = license to make things with

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