by Trish56 21 Mar 2015

Can someone tell me how I can find out if a design is breaching a copyright, I found a minecraft design that would be perfect for my grandson, but can see nothing about it being ok with the licence people, I don't want to get in trouble for using it also I don't want to be cheating the rightful owners out of their rightful money to the design !

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by mpo14011 21 Mar 2015

Trish, ALL designs are automatically copyright protected.
Minecraft is licensed. If it is free or very cheap to buy, you can rest assured that it is an illegal design. Also, the person selling licensed designs need to display, in a very prominent place on their site, that they have purchased the license. Again, if you don't see this, you know it is illegal.

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by Trish56 21 Mar 2015

ok, Thanks for the information, licence/copyright I am assuming is the same? will check the site again, thanks heaps

by mpo14011 21 Mar 2015

No Trish. There is a big difference between copyright and license.
http://www.cuteembroidery.com/350...

by Trish56 22 Mar 2015

Thanks for the link, BOY, this licence/copyright thing is very complex...... I think I`m getting it now, that site I was on yesterday which made me ask this question in the first place has a lot of the designs that is mentioned in the link, when I went back to have another look for the mention of copy right and licence all I saw was the words copyright 2013-2015 and that's all. I reckon I will keep away from there, just to be safe !!

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by rescuer Moderator 21 Mar 2015

As Minecraft is now owned by Microsoft, you would have to see their permission (included license) listed with the design.
You might check one of the bigger names in embroidery like iBroidery as they might be able to afford such a thing.
Good luck!

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by Trish56 21 Mar 2015

Thank you for you information, there is too many people trying to cheat,

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