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Clarification on User Agreement regarding Trademark/Copyright
Ownership
There is some mis-information spreading that we are taking over and stealing
everyones content. So we want to clarify and make sure everyone understands
that this is absolutely NOT TRUE. We know that the language of lawyers
(legalese) is indeed foreign to most of us - so we would like do a step by
step explanation on clauses 6.1 - 6.3. Please let us know if anyone has any
questions!
6.1 CafePress.com will solely and exclusively own all intellectual property
and other rights, title and interest in and to the CafePress.com Service,
and CafePress.com will have the sole and exclusive right to obtain trademark
and copyright registrations, patents and other protection therefor. You will
not acquire any right, title or interest in any rights of CafePress.com
under this Agreement or otherwise.
This clause basically states that CafePress owns the rights to the Web site
and service - and that we have the right to register and protect the
trademarks and copyrights to our service. This clause has nothing to do with
the content provided by our members.
6.2 You hereby grant to CafePress.com a non-exclusive, royalty-free right,
during the term of this Agreement, to utilize your existing trademarks,
trade names, designs and logos (collectively referred to as "Party Marks")
in connection with the advertising, promotion, production and sale of the
products and services you choose to sell in accordance with this Agreement.
This clause gives us the rights we need to produce and ship the items you
want to sell through our service. You give us a royalty-free and
non-exclusive right - which means we don't pay a licensing fee for the
artwork/content and our agreement is non-exclusive. This clause points out
you are the owner of your trademarks, names, designs and logos.
6.3 You grant CafePress.com permission to reproduce your Party Marks in
CafePress.com marketing and advertising, provided CafePress.com credits you
and/or the original artist as actual owner of the Party Marks. CafePress.com
will not represent ownership of any of your designs.
We run ads and promotions to drive traffic to our member's stores - and when
we do so and promote your store - we have to credit you as the owner of your
artwork. The last line specifically says "CafePress.com will not represent
ownership of any of your designs."
We hope this better explains our Intellectual Property policies. If you have
any questions, please email m@cafepress.com
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