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Can anyone answer this question for me? I write children's stories but cannot draw worth anything. However, I LOVE digital scrapbooking and was wondering if I could combine my two passions by writing a book and using SG materials to illustrate it? I've played with a cover for a story and it came out so beautiful, but do not know if a commercial license would cross-over into this type of publishing. The set I used for my cover is not commercial, and I think it has been retired. If so, could I still pay for commercial use? Please, any help here would be most welcome. Thanks :-)
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Posted 17 April 2011 - 02:18 PM
I do not know the answer to this - I don't know if you can buy commercial rights to something after it's been retired but I wouldn't think you can. I am sure someone with alot more knowledge than I have will come along and answer this for you.
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Posted 17 April 2011 - 02:50 PM
I think in order for you to get the commercial license of a retired product, you'd have to contact the designer directly. If you can't do that then I'd suggest looking through the commercial use products and see if there is anything similar. Good luck with your venture.
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Posted 17 April 2011 - 08:49 PM
Just a little more info...The story is about a faerie and the set I used was specific to fairies. I no longer see it available here, and since there is such a little available with a fairy theme, using something else just won't work. However, I appreciate your input and think contacting the designer directly would probably be a good idea. Also, since this was purchased through SG I would think I would also have to contact them directly. I was just wondering, though, for future reference, if commercial license would crossover into publishing a book with SG products. After all, the illustrations are really scrap pages. Any other replies would be most welcome, as I am pretty fuzzy about commercial license in general. Again, thanks :-)
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Posted 17 April 2011 - 11:11 PM
The commercial licenses here vary - the finished collections sold as commercial use are more limited than the scrap simple ones. The use you are talking about may be outside the TOU, unless you plan to self-publish. We have TOU administrators. For something outside the TOU, you would probably have to contact Ro.
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Posted 19 April 2011 - 05:59 PM
Thank you for all the info! Yes, I was thinking of using this for self-publishing; commercial publishers prefer to use their own illustrators. I will contact SG with the info regarding the set and designer and see what they say. I really don't know what people do with commercial licenses so was not sure who to ask. All of you were very helpful. Thanks again!
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