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I create some quotes lettering illustration and upload them on several agency and they are accepted on every stock agency. but istock rejected my vector for copyright and trademark issue. how it is possible when I am using perfect font. and quotes are before 1920. they are famous ancient philosophical quotes before 1920. so how there is any copyrigh or trademark problem. if someone have some knowledge about that please describe it. thanks. Sent from my SM-J200G using Tapatalk
the fonts are definitely not copy protected in the US. neither are short phrases."Works Not Protected by Copyright"- Names, titles, and short phrases- Typeface, fonts, and letteringUS Copyright Officehttps://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ33.pdf
As always, unnonimus is slightly correct... but mainly completely wrong.
Quote from: SpaceStockFootage on December 01, 2018, 02:46As always, unnonimus is slightly correct... but mainly completely wrong. "There are some very limited cases where the Office may register some types of typeface,typefont, lettering, or calligraphy. " to quote from his source. The font used by the London Underground being one example.
Quote from: unnonimus on December 01, 2018, 01:12the fonts are definitely not copy protected in the US. neither are short phrases."Works Not Protected by Copyright"- Names, titles, and short phrases- Typeface, fonts, and letteringUS Copyright Officehttps://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ33.pdfthanks for your comment Sent from my SM-J200G using Tapatalk
it seems impossible when a quotation/saying/short phrase from the ancient philosophers or from their books which is 18th or 19th century old for example aristotle and William Shakespeare quotes. how it is possible to get copyright and trademark rejections with that. although the validity of and copyright protection is maximum 70 years. this case is could not be able to understand. otherwise thanks for your comment here. [(English is not my language)]Sent from my SM-J200G using Tapatalk
Quote from: mukul on December 01, 2018, 05:47it seems impossible when a quotation/saying/short phrase from the ancient philosophers or from their books which is 18th or 19th century old for example aristotle and William Shakespeare quotes. how it is possible to get copyright and trademark rejections with that. although the validity of and copyright protection is maximum 70 years. this case is could not be able to understand. otherwise thanks for your comment here. [(English is not my language)]Sent from my SM-J200G using TapatalkWhy would an agency want to offer anything that is not copyrighted, anybody can copy it.
Quote from: mukul on November 29, 2018, 11:49I create some quotes lettering illustration and upload them on several agency and they are accepted on every stock agency. but istock rejected my vector for copyright and trademark issue. how it is possible when I am using perfect font. and quotes are before 1920. they are famous ancient philosophical quotes before 1920. so how there is any copyrigh or trademark problem. if someone have some knowledge about that please describe it. thanks. Sent from my SM-J200G using TapatalkDo you have a link with an example of image you are talking about? Like a link from a different stock website that accepted it? Maybe the quotation is not the copyright issue, but another element in your design.
Did you use the word 'logo' as keyword, title, description? ''The iStock Content Licensing Agreement specifically prohibits clients from using our illustrations as logos (See section 3b: Restricted Uses: No use in Trademark or Logos). Describing your illustration as a logo is extremely misleading for clients as they are not allowed to use iStock illustrations as logos or trademarks. As such, if you use the word logo in your illustration (for example, you type Logo Template as placeholder text), or in your metadata (keywords, description, or title), your file will be declined. This information is also covered in our comprehensive Contributor FAQs site.''Also''Read the license that came with your font to ensure it can be used commercially (i.e. sold as a Royalty Free stock illustration). As per our ASA (Artists Supply Agreement), you are responsible for ensuring your submissions dont contain any legal issues. As such, you will need to check the font license to ensure its OK to use it commercially. When in doubt, please contact the font creator or type foundry for clarification.''And ''All text must be converted to outlines. This is because clients likely dont have the same fonts as you, so editable text boxes in your le will default to a system font (such as Courier). In order to ensure clients are receiving the exact same file they saw on iStock you must convert all your text to outlines. To do this in Adobe Illustrator, just click on your text and go to Type > Create Outlines.''
Why worry? Your files are on other sites so if someone wants them, they'll need to buy them there.At one time iS would likely have rejected any font you didn't design yourself, and more recently, they'd have rejected what you described as being "too simplistic". At the low selling rate there nowadays, they can't pay for detailed inspection so probably just tell inspectors just to reject quotations - they can't afford inspector time for research. Finally, back in the day, I had a file rejected for having the name of the town visible. It was really small, but I had to remove it (presumably editorial). I questioned it on the forum and was told to my astonishment that the town name might be copyrighted. I couldn't imagine such a scenario, and anyway the town has had that name since at least the 11th century. But blanket rejections on town names.Just move on.
Why worry? Your files are on other sites so if someone wants them, they'll need to buy them there.At one time iS would likely have rejected any font you didn't design yourself, and more recently, they'd have rejected what you described as being "too simplistic". At the low selling rate there nowadays, they can't pay for detailed inspection so probably just tell inspectors just to reject quotations - they can't afford inspector time for research. Finally, back in the day, I had a file rejected for having the name of the town visible. It was really small, but I had to remove it (prior to them accepting editorial). I questioned it on the forum and was told to my astonishment that the town name might be copyrighted. I couldn't imagine such a scenario, and anyway the town has had that name since at least the 11th century. But blanket rejections on town names.Just move on.
...they can't pay for detailed inspection so probably just tell inspectors just to reject quotations - they can't afford inspector time for research.
Quote from: ShadySue on December 01, 2018, 12:41Why worry? Your files are on other sites so if someone wants them, they'll need to buy them there.At one time iS would likely have rejected any font you didn't design yourself, and more recently, they'd have rejected what you described as being "too simplistic". At the low selling rate there nowadays, they can't pay for detailed inspection so probably just tell inspectors just to reject quotations - they can't afford inspector time for research. Finally, back in the day, I had a file rejected for having the name of the town visible. It was really small, but I had to remove it (prior to them accepting editorial). I questioned it on the forum and was told to my astonishment that the town name might be copyrighted. I couldn't imagine such a scenario, and anyway the town has had that name since at least the 11th century. But blanket rejections on town names.Just move on.Sad but true, the town name wouldn't be copyrighted as such, but the council holds copyright over every single street sign in the city, including a sign with the town name on it (at least that's how it works in the UK, not sure about the US)
It's totally irrelevant, though.If an agency decides not to accept photos of grass, that's their decision.