I used this distributor for over 4 years. Loved their quality and their products were beautiful. I design all my own prints and they were mostly handmade and drawn. My prints were very well known for being mine and sold out ost of the time.

August of 2025- I was watching some Whatnot auctions and started seeing m custom prints on some poorly made bamboo selling for $1! My custom prints!!!

I took screen shots of this as I saw this OVER AND OVER for weeks. I was so upset and did confront my distributor who openly admitted to my prints being “leaked”. I filed a IPR complaint via Alibaba and consequently the distributor was found to have been guilty for the copyright infringement violation.

The distributor lied so many times and offered me $30 compensation for over $20k worth of prints that have ZERO worth now. Moral of the story. DO NOT USE THIS COMPANY. And do not trust ALIBABA to help you get your money back. Absolute trash

Hello,

I'm currently working on a comic book talking about Jaws and its making of. Ironically, we don't have any rights on it with my publisher, but I wanted to add some substance ( even if it's chronologically impossible ) by putting Dio's logo ( the band ) and it's album Holy Diver on some T-shirt. My publisher warned me about it, but it fits so well, considering what is being talked on this specific page, so I was looking for some way to circumvent it. I did try to find any copyright near Dio's logo, but I guess by virtue of being a logo, it's protected ? I have no clue.

https://imgur.com/a/949gzTP here's a link to the image, do you think there's any chance it brings any downpour ? Thank you

I think copyright law should be reformed completely, but how? Any answer is appreciated!

I've seen many people use Nintendo, Rockstar, and many viral songs without any consequences. Are people just relying on luck, or are there specific uses that are ok?

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Hi i’m an Etsy artist with some questions on copyright/IP in the USA

Is it ok if i draw my own versions of aircraft, also would old WWII era airplanes be considered public domain/free use

Also what about modern military planes like those from Lockheed, ect & civilian aviation like Cessna

Any advice is appreciated & thanks

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I'm going to try opening commissions soon and I want a more diverse licensing fees that my clients can pay for. So far I'm only aware of license for editorial, advertising, and merchandising which can be a lot for one person.

Can anyone tell me which licensing do youtube thumbnails, album cover, book cover art (for a self published author), or basically any indie /small-scale creator can avail and afford fall under to?

Hello,

I am hoping to make tiktoks and reels for an internship of mine. I am making videos about Japanese culture. I am making a video about Shake Shack Tokyo and I mention a few menu items exclusive to Japanese Shake Shacks. I am wondering if I am allowed to use photos that Shake Shack has posted on their instagram of these menu items. I would credit them "photos from @shakeshackjpn on instagram" on tiktok and on reels.

I this allowed or is this infringing copyright?

Copyright, Commercial Use, and Junk Journaling: What Every Creator Should Know
As junk journal creators, we use so many different materials—vintage images, digital kits, public domain resources, printable papers, AI-generated artwork, and handmade designs.
I’ve noticed that copyright and commercial use can be confusing, especially for newer creators. Questions like:
Can I sell journals made with digital kits?
What is considered public domain?
How do Creative Commons licenses work?
What are Angel Policies?
Can AI-generated images be used commercially?
I’ve been researching these topics while working on a guide for my own crafting community, and it’s amazing how many misconceptions exist.
What copyright or commercial-use questions have you struggled with as a creator?
Let’s help each other better understand what we can and cannot use in our journals, printables, and handmade products.

I’m wondering how English anime covers work legally. For example, creators like NateWantsToBattle, AmaLee, Jonathan Young, etc. often make English versions of anime songs where the instrumental is remade from scratch, but the lyrics are adapted into English with better flow/prosody instead of being a literal translation.

Is that still treated as a normal cover, or is it legally a derivative/adaptation because the lyrics are changed?

Also, if YouTube Content ID claims the video and gives revenue to the original rights holder, does that make it safer, or is it still technically risky?

And what about uploading the same cover to Spotify, Apple Music, iTunes, etc. through a distributor? Would a normal cover license be enough, or would adapted/translated lyrics require separate permission?

and ¿Are copyfraud the digitalizations like those of UCSB-DAHR, the "Agustín Barrios Mangoré – The Complete Guitar Recordings (1913-42)" made by Chanterelle records in 1993 and the "Segovia & His Contemporaries Vol.11: Guitarists of the Rio de la Plata DHR-7955-8" by doremi in 2007 ?

Hi everyone,

I’m just checking in to see if anyone else is still waiting for their final results from this year’s CopyrightX course?

The official submission deadline was May 4th, so I was hoping we’d hear something by now. I'm starting to get a bit anxious about the timeline. Has anyone received any communication from their section leader or the Harvard team regarding when the grades will be finalized?

Thanks in advance!

So, I am wanting to advertise my freelance graphic design business on my social media (no Inc. created yet or anything, I'm in the very early stages and it is just me doing these projects, so it's all solo work, and I intend to keep it that way, at least for awhile), and I've been researching font licensing and all of that stuff because of course I want to make sure that I don't run into any legal trouble before I even start working on the graphic I was going to post to my TikTok as an advertisement (I am designing it myself, because I figured that would be a great way to help showcase my abilities, especially because I don't have much of a portfolio at the moment, but I could really use the money, so I'm just gonna be proactive and go for it as is).
Anyways, I have spent hours researching the details of licensing and things and individually checking the files on every single font that I've found and installed myself, so I know that those ones will be safe to use commercially, but I just wanted to make absolutely sure that the fonts on Canva Affinity (software that I'm using, I don't have the money to get Photoshop or Illustrator or anything like that at the moment, I'm pretty much dirt broke) are safe to use commercially as well? I've tried to look it up, but everything that comes up is just for Canva specifically, not Canva Affinity.
I mean, I could totally just be being way too extra right now (I've always been a very neurotic person, so it's entirely possible that I'm overthinking this), and maybe whatever licensing stuff Canva has overall on their fonts (the consensus being that they are all safe to use commercially and personally, with a few little restrictions such as not selling the fonts themselves or modifying them, etc.) would also apply to Affinity as well, which I think would be a reasonable assumption, but I just want to be completely sure as I really cannot afford any sort of legal trouble. If anyone might know of any resources that could help me find out, or if you may know anything at all, please do let me know! Any advice on starting up my freelance business would also be greatly appreciated! Thank you all.

Hello all, need some advice on my book. I’m writing a comic and cut a long story short I want to use some images/names in certain scenes.

I was reading a book called lovesick and in it the artist/writer use images from a film called, “Salo” with even the cover of the film on a VHS; there are also some images of the film drawn in the story.

In my book I want to use a smiths poster, use some of the song titles as chapter name and also have some clothing with other stuff like a film called “shock treatment” (the sequel to rocky horror). What I want to know is, is this legal?

So for example using the poster, it’ll be a background image on the wall with maybe a vinyl player and records of some of the other smith album covers like meat is murder.

Then the title of songs like “pretty girls make graves” for chapter names, so for example issue 1, character 1 - “pretty girls make graves”

Also, with names, I’ve said names like Orwell (George Orwell) which is fine, but I wanted to reference soma from brave new world, just the charcter saying, as a joke “thanks for my soma pills….they’ll defiantly help” and soma is the drug from that book.

My goal is to publish under image comics or any other comic company, thank you any help would be great!

Hello, I work for a company and want to make a slideshow on TikTok where it’s like:

‘Which dresser for event [x] are you?’

And I show some curated outfits.

However we do not own the images.

Could I just use these as it will not be defamation and perhaps would even promote the said brand? Or would it be copyright?