Copyright Policy

What copyright stands for? – Copyright stands for freedom of creativity with few restrictions for supporting intellectual rights of each other. Copyright gives the authors rights to use their own works, make copies of their own  works, or create new works based on existing ones and allow or prohibit third parties to do so. Primarily, no one can use an author’s work without strict permission. However, if you want to know about exceptions from this restriction (e.g. fair use) you better address your concerns to the qualified attorney (lawyer).
Example: If you create artwork while using Sketchar, you automatically allow Sketchar to display your artwork on our Website, the Marketplace, or in our Mobile App because you have agreed with the Terms of use. However, no other users nor third parties outside Sketchar do not have rights to use your artwork for commercial purposes. Non-commercial use also could be an infringement.

Which works are copyrighted?
Any work is copyrighted if it’s creative, original, and did not fall into the public domain. To ensure the work falls into the public domain you have to check the date of creation of the work if the author is dead or alive and local copyright regulation. We encourage you to address your concerns to a qualified attorney (lawyer).
Work is not required to have a copyright notice to be protectable. Publicly available works are not free to use if it’s not stated clearly by the authors, please read attached licenses (e.g., Creative Commons) carefully to understand the permission they provide.

How do you get copyright?
You meet copyright in any creative, original work the moment you make it. “Original work” means you did not copy the work of a third party. Your work is considered “creative” unless otherwise is not proven in court. Copyright does not protect ideas and concepts but expressions of the ideas and concepts.
Example: Artists do not own sunsets, trees, nature, portraits, and other things (or people) which they are drawing. Two different artists will create various works exploiting the same idea. It is not an infringement. However, if one author created the work and another one decides to recreate it – this is probably an infringement.

Please be aware that certain jurisdictions may require registering your work to execute certain rights, for example, initiate a court proceeding. If you need legal advice, you should seek the services of a qualified attorney (lawyer).

We acknowledge every artwork (User Content) you may create using our Website, the Marketplace, or Mobile App. However, we warn you not to use the Website, the Marketplace, and the Mobile App to collect, upload, transmit, display, or distribute any User Content that:
(i) violates any third-party right, including any copyright, trademark, patent, trade secret, moral right, privacy right, right of publicity, or any other intellectual property or proprietary right;
(ii) is unlawful, harassing, abusive, tortious, threatening, harmful, invasive of another’s privacy, vulgar, defamatory, false, intentionally misleading, trade libelous, pornographic, obscene, patently offensive, promotes racism, bigotry, hatred, or physical harm of any kind against any group or individual or is otherwise objectionable;
(iii) is harmful to minors in any way; or
(iv) violates any law, regulation, or obligations or restrictions imposed by any third party;
(v) engages in any lottery, bidding fee auctions, contests, sweepstakes, or other games of chance.We have the right to suspend or terminate your rights to use the Website, the Marketplace, and the Mobile App if we know that your User Content includes the aforementioned.
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How can you avoid copyright infringement?
Only authors (and right holders) may allow or prohibit use of their works. In other words, if you do not get permission to use the work – you probably committed a copyright infringement.
By “use” we understand:
(a) posting someone else’s work on The Website, the Marketplace, or the Mobile App
(b) adapting someone else’s work (e.g. from photo to illustration)
(c) modifying/editing someone else’s work
It does not matter:
(a) how much of th