Hi, I just visited planetapplique, and I found something very sad there.
They have so many people buying and reselling their products as the resellers own work, they had to add a copyright stitch which indicates Planet Applique as the original designer. This copyright stitch must be removed while stitching.
Isn't that sad? I do hope cuteembroidery and the sister sites do not have the same problem.
link: (http://www.planetapplique.com)
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Wow! That is interesting. I heard that PE Next - brother's digitizing package, somehow locks the designs. What that means I am not sure.
173692Thanks for letting us know, it goes to show there are all kinds out there..
45918This is sad, but it takes just one to ruin everything for the rest. I for one don't digitize but I can see why a person would need to protect themselves from others. Thank you for the info.
35301I can't find the information about their copyright stitches. Disney has the copyright notice ouside the designs, but as a rule tiny, hidden stitches are added (that can be removed if you have the software to do so).
Embird let you add them automatically, but I never could see what exactly they stitched and I can't find it in the latest version.
I usually add my initials somewhere in the underlay. I moved the underlay to the side to show you one of mine. You can of course remove them, but it would need a bit of time and a bit of knowledge og your editing program.
I have been doing that since someone tried to sell me one of my own designs which I had posted here in DBC. She bought it from a friend and offered to share it with me for half the price she had paid for it - that would have cost me $5 - so someone must have been making a nice amount of money from my 3D Christmas tree. Unfortunately in FSL initials would show, but it works well for filled designs.
8 comments
by jrob
19 Apr 2014
It's on the design page. When you click on the design and it opens the page you can see it.
Our digital files may contain a copyright stitch which indicates Planet Applique as the original designer. Unfornately, due to repeat offenders buying and reselling our digital files as their own, we have had to take an ounce of prevention. For our customers who buy from us, this small simple stitch may be skipped entirely with the push of a button on your embroidery machine. We have decided to do this to protect our brand but also to protect our customers, as these offenders often sell our files for significantly more money than we charge.
by mops
19 Apr 2014
She did not know it was mine, had bought it herself for $10. Although selling to me half price would have been an offence, she was not the one who started it.
by anssmile
19 Apr 2014
Hi, I did not mean your friend, I meant the idiot who sold it it in the first place! I should have expressed myself clearer. I am disgusted with the person who took the freebie and made it into a money generating design, and causing it to be offered to you at a price. I think that must have been a very nasty surprise.
by rosakent
20 Apr 2014
Some friend, selling something she had got for free. I think I would look carefully at my friends.
by anssmile
20 Apr 2014
The friend bought it, she did not get it for free. Some other person downloaded it from where Mops offered it for free, and then started selling it, also selling it to Mops' friend.
145302Cute has had the problem. This is why DBC is in maintenance. It is not only sad that these people do this, it is awful and illegal..
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