Intellectual Property Rights Policy

1. Scope

This Policy applies across Printine websites, Business Accounts, the Designer Platform, the Developer Platform, APIs, SDKs, MCP integrations, personalization and Designer tools, Render services, POD Models, Design Products, the Asset Center, production, fulfillment, and related services (collectively, the “Services”).

The Policy applies regardless of whether content is submitted through a browser, an API request, an embedded experience, an imported file or URL, a production payload, or another technical method.

2. Types of Content

3. Customer Content

Printine does not acquire ownership of Customer Content merely because it is uploaded, transmitted, rendered, produced, or fulfilled through the Services. The person or entity providing Customer Content retains whatever rights it lawfully owns.

The provider remains responsible for having the rights, licenses, permissions, or other lawful basis necessary to submit and use that content through the Services.

4. Permission to Provide the Requested Services

By submitting content for a Printine service, the provider authorizes Printine and the service providers needed for that request to handle the content only as needed to deliver the requested result. This may include hosting, storing, resizing, rendering, creating previews or production files, sending files to production, manufacturing, packaging, fulfilling, shipping, and displaying a preview or ordered product.

This permission is limited to operating the Services, completing the requested work, providing support, maintaining security, and meeting legal obligations. It does not transfer ownership of the submitted content to Printine.

Printine may transmit protected content to production and fulfillment partners solely as reasonably necessary to fulfill an order. Those partners do not receive independent ownership merely because they manufacture or ship a product.

5. Designer Content

Designers retain ownership of intellectual property they lawfully own unless a separate written agreement expressly provides otherwise. Publishing through Printine does not by itself transfer copyright ownership to Printine.

By publishing Designer Content, a designer authorizes Printine to display the work, create previews and Mockups, associate it with Printine Models, render product images, make it available as an approved Design Product, enable the selected personalization options, produce products, fulfill orders, and present the published Design Product within the Services.

Printine review of Designer Content is a platform or content review and is not legal clearance or confirmation of ownership. Designers remain responsible for having all necessary rights.

6. End-User and Personalization Content

Business Customers may allow their end users to submit content through Easy Customize, Full Custom, API integrations, embedded Designer experiences, or storefront personalization. The Business Customer is responsible for establishing appropriate terms and content policies with those users.

The Business Customer is responsible for content it submits or causes to be submitted through its integration, including end-user content where applicable. Printine may process that content only as reasonably necessary to provide the Services and exercise rights described in this Policy.

Platforms and developers that enable user submissions should maintain appropriate user terms, content rules, and complaint mechanisms for their own customer relationships. This Policy does not replace those responsibilities.

7. Ready to Buy, Easy Customize, and Full Custom

These modes do not change underlying copyright or other ownership unless expressly stated in an applicable agreement or license.

8. API and Integration Content

Content submitted through Orders, Render requests, design imports, image URLs, production files, personalization payloads, SDKs, MCP tools, or other integrations is subject to the same responsibilities as content uploaded through the website.

Approval of an App, Design Product, production order, Go Live review, or other content does not constitute a legal determination that the content does not infringe third-party rights.

9. Printine Intellectual Property

Except where expressly licensed, Printine or its licensors retain rights in the Printine name and branding, websites, software, source code, Designer technology, Render technology, APIs, platform architecture, Model definitions, Mockups, documentation, user interfaces, product data, graphics, templates, system assets, and other proprietary technology or content.

Access to the Services does not transfer ownership of Printine intellectual property. Use is subject to applicable Terms, subscription terms, developer terms, asset licenses, and open-source licenses.

10. Models and Mockups

Access to a Printine Model, Mockup, or rendered product visualization does not automatically transfer ownership of Model data, product photography, Mockup templates, rendering configurations, production specifications, or underlying Printine technology.

Business Customers may use Model and Mockup outputs within the scope allowed by the applicable Service, documentation, and agreement. Rights in a rendered output depend on the rights in each underlying component and its applicable license.

11. Fonts, Clipart, Shapes, and Asset Center

Printine may provide fonts, clipart, shapes, graphics, or other design elements from Printine, designers, third-party licensors, open-source sources, or the public domain. Availability within Printine does not grant unrestricted ownership or unlimited use outside the permitted context.

Asset-specific license terms and metadata may govern commercial use, attribution, modification, redistribution, or external use. Users must comply with that information where provided and should not assume that material described as “free” online is free for commercial print-on-demand use.

12. APIs, SDKs, MCP, Documentation, and Open Source

Printine may provide APIs, SDKs, MCP tools, documentation, sample code, example projects, and integration templates. Unless separately licensed, these remain subject to applicable Printine terms.

Open-source components and repositories remain governed by their applicable licenses, including MIT, Apache-2.0, BSD, or another identified license. This Policy does not override an applicable open-source license.

13. Rendered Outputs and Production Files

A rendered output may combine Customer Content, Designer Content, Printine Model or Mockup elements, licensed assets, and generated product visualization. Rights in that output depend on the underlying components and applicable licenses. Rendering does not grant rights to source content the user was not authorized to use.

Production files may contain Customer Content, Designer Content, Printine technical data, Model geometry, print-area data, and rendering output. Access, use, and redistribution are governed by the applicable Service terms; access does not automatically create unrestricted redistribution rights in internal production data.

14. User Responsibilities

A party providing content represents that it has the necessary rights, licenses, permissions, or lawful basis to submit and use the content. Depending on the content, this may include copyright, trademarks, design rights, publicity or personality rights, image and likeness rights, and other proprietary rights.

• Potentially problematic content may include copyrighted artwork copied without permission, unauthorized logos, celebrity or personal images without appropriate rights, protected characters, counterfeit branding, unauthorized sports or team marks, and copyrighted photographs.
• Creative Commons, public-domain, commercial-license, and other third-party content must be used in accordance with all applicable attribution, commercial-use, modification, and share-alike conditions.

15. Prohibited Uses and Content Review

You may not knowingly use the Services to create, upload, sell, produce, or distribute content that infringes third-party rights, including unauthorized copyrighted works, trademarks, logos, characters, photographs, artwork, counterfeit branding, fake branded merchandise, or other protected material.

Printine may use automated systems, manual review, and complaint-based review, but does not guarantee that every design or order will be reviewed for infringement before publication or production. Review or approval does not transfer legal responsibility for the content.

16. Reporting Alleged Infringement

A rights holder may report alleged copyright, trademark, design-right, or other intellectual-property infringement by emailing legal@printine.com. A report should generally include:

• identification of the protected work, mark, design, or other right;
• identification of the allegedly infringing material;
• information sufficient for Printine to locate the material, such as a URL, Design Product, App, order, or other reference;
• the rights holder’s or authorized representative’s contact information;
• an explanation of the rights claimed and why the reported use is believed to be unauthorized;
• confirmation that the information supplied is accurate.

17. How Printine May Respond

After receiving a credible report, Printine may review the content, request additional information, temporarily disable or remove content, unpublish a Design Product, suspend production, contact the relevant customer or designer, restrict API or App access, restrict an account, or take other proportionate action.

A Design Product may be unpublished or removed when infringement is credibly reported, rights cannot be verified, the content violates applicable policy, or Printine receives a valid legal request. Where supported, Printine may notify relevant Business Customers or developers through appropriate platform mechanisms.

Printine does not promise a particular response time or outcome. Action depends on the report, available evidence, applicable law, and the nature of the affected Service.

18. If You Believe an Action Was a Mistake

A user whose content has been removed, restricted, or disabled may write to legal@printine.com. Please identify the affected material, explain why you believe the action was mistaken, include relevant evidence of rights or authorization, and provide current contact information.

Printine will review the available information and may ask the reporting party or the affected user for additional context. This is a general platform review process, not a substitute for any legal remedy available to the parties.

19. Repeat Infringers

Printine may suspend or terminate Business Customers, developers, designers, Apps, or other accounts that repeatedly infringe intellectual-property rights or materially abuse the Services. Printine does not use a publicly fixed strike count unless one is separately adopted.

20. AI-Generated and AI-Assisted Content

Printine may process content created with AI tools. Users remain responsible for determining whether they have sufficient rights to submit, use, produce, and distribute AI-generated or AI-assisted content.

Printine does not guarantee that such content is unique, copyrightable, free of third-party rights, or dissimilar to third-party content. This Policy does not make broad conclusions about ownership of AI-generated works.

21. Third-Party Services and Licenses

Printine may integrate third-party services, libraries, fonts, licensed media, production partners, logistics providers, and other technology. Third-party content and software may be governed by separate terms and licenses, which this Policy does not override.

22. Privacy and Personal Data

Uploaded content may include photographs or other personal information. Processing of personal data is governed by the Privacy Policy and applicable data-processing terms. This Intellectual Property Rights Policy does not replace those privacy rules.

23. Changes and Related Policies

Printine may update this Policy to reflect changes in the Services, technology, legal requirements, or business practices. The updated version will be posted on this page with a revised “Last Updated” date. Material changes may also be communicated through available site, account, or announcement mechanisms where appropriate.

This Policy should be read with the Terms of Service, Privacy Policy, and Returns, Reprints & Refunds Policy, together with applicable developer, designer, asset, subscription, and open-source license terms.

24. Contact

For intellectual-property questions or infringement reports, contact legal@printine.com.