Thanks for the info!

digimad is the author of this post that comes from a highly respected company..... Janome. I have gone one step further & called my dealer & questioned them further & they agree. I have even gone further still & called a printing company that gave me (to read) almost the exact same information. (theres were related to printing & not embroidery)

what surprises me regarding this issue is that the answer is not what we would expect it to be sew I think that when in doubt it is definately worth the read! Hugs &******2 all Loralye

Thank you for the interesting write about this licence question. One should really be careful, even when customers beg you to make them items.***

Yes, this has been repeated countless times here. Maybe everybody ought to print this out and paste it by their computer? Personally I think every dealer ought to give a written copy of this information to their customers, but then everybody doesn't buy from a dealer. As a general rule, if it's popular and desirable and well-known, on television or from books, the design better say 'licensed' if you get it, or it's illegal. When in doubt, don't! Hugs, Marji

Thank you for repeating your post Loralye.
Now if we can just get more people to read it we will have succeeded in informing those coming along behind us and perhaps saved someone from costly prosecution.
Hugs and love, Meg

Designs that are from "big name" companies set off a little "do not use for sale" warning bell in my head. If I see someone's design for sale on another's site or Ebay, that is a no-no too.
My problem is knowing the individual policies of the tons of digitizers selling online. It is simply too much for me to keep track of. So I no longer purchase from sites that do not allow you to sell items (craft show selling) that you use their designs on, or absolutley prohibit any changes to their designs (like if I want to stitch the animals, but not the barn), or other "run-of-the-mill" things that we routinely do for our personal use. While I know the ME police is not going to someone's house because they pasted a couple of designs together that was prohibited by the digitizer and stitched it on a tshirt, as a responsible citizen, you don't want to forget and put it on something for sale or even worry about it in the first place. There's probably a happy medium some place, I'm just not sure where.

Don't forget logos of cars and sports teams. those are also copyrighted and would need to have a license to digitize and give/sell the designs.