well, I asked Deb, from Emblibrary about the designs...bad news...here is her answer+++++
You are most welcome to sell items that are embroidered with Embroidery Library designs. However, the design files may not be sold, shared, or distributed in any manner.
We're an employee-owned company, and all of the designs that you see at our site were drawn and digitized by us. When you purchase a design, you're actually purchasing a license to embroider the design in an embroidery machine. The design remains the property of Embroidery Library, Inc.
The license allows you to embroider the design in an embroidery machine and use it in a variety of ways, including personal use, sale for profit, donation to charity, and gifts. If you want to stitch our designs and sell the stitched items at craft shows and fairs, or through a website, that's excellent! We wish you much success.
The license prohibits selling, sharing, trading, or distributing the digital file. Please do not share the designs. If your friend or family member wants one of our designs, have him/her come to our site to
buy a license for the design.
You are allowed to edit the design in any manner that you choose, but the edited design file is also copyrighted by Embroidery Library, Inc. It cannot be distributed, shared, or sold.
If you have questions about the above, let us know! Send an email to stitch@emblibrary.com
My embroidery is just that. MY embroidery. If I wanted to leave embroidery files when I'm gone, I'd leave it in a monetary form or gift card for the recipient to choose what suits them.
I haven't ever bought an embroidery file with the idea that someone else might like it after I'm gone.
I understand where you are coming from, however I don't look at my embroidery files as an asset. I look at them the same as most others; something that gives me pleasure in the here and now.
Every hobby is expensive and the most expensive part of machine embroidery is IMO the 'hardware': machine, threads and notions. All of which can be given away to whoever you want to give it to.
Embroidery software can be sold or given away in some cases, especially those that come with a dongle.
Seeing the number of flowers to all postings in the freebie section I expect the better part of all embroidery collections consists of freebies.
And those bought ones? They are the ones I wanted and all of them give me great pleasure.
