Guys, advise what can be done next? A freepik.com user stole 200+ vector images from creazilla.com and sells them breaching Creazilla Open License.
I’ve asked freepik to remove Creazilla’s images from their site. After 2–3 emails someone from Copyright team finally responded that they are looking into the problem. 3 weeks later nothing was done and silence from Freepik.
You’ve done what you can do, notify the picture owner, who will take what steps they can take to address the situation.
As you’re not the copyright holder, you can do nothing more.
“All assets licensed under the Creazilla Open License can be used for free. You can use them for non-commercial and commercial purposes. You do not need to ask permission or provide credit to the Publisher. However, attribution is required if you redistribute an asset as a downloadable good or product.”
Their license is garbage. Good luck. You’ve signed away your rights by putting it under that license.
Actually, this is my license. I created it. I am co-founder of creazilla.com. Yes, it allows commercial use without asking permission, but it doesn’t allow selling the content on stock web-site as is, what the mentioned Freepik’s user does.
Your license DOES allow that, because your license’s full text is:
Nowhere in that license does it limit the COMMERCIAL USE of assets. You even specifically allow 500 assets to be taken and used, and are on this forum complaining because they took 200.
I STRONGLY suggest you go find a lawyer to rewrite your license. It is absolutely worthless.
EDIT: I should phrase that better. It’s absolutely worthless in protecting any rights you think you might have to the assets. Your license can be summed up as “Do whatever you want with these, as long as you dont take more than 500 or put them into AI”.
Did you read FAQ?
I agree that the the full license text wasn’t entirely clear, but we tried to clear out all the conditions of the license below the full text. So, you conclude that Creazilla Open license allows selling on stock sites just from reading a part of the text, which is wrong. Read all the text including clarifications. Nevertheless, I got you hint and added main points of clarification into the full license text.
The FAQ is not part of the LEGAL TEXT of the License. Again. A lawyer would be able to tell you this. The only part of the license that is legally binding is the actual text of the license.
Also, the FAQ you’re pointing at shows a picture of someone putting the image on a Tshirt, and saying it’s not allowed because it’s the main element, and then later on IN THE SAME FAQ, says
So … your FAQ is just as worthless as the license text. Did you read your own FAQ?
Seriously. Stop trying. Find a lawyer. Or twenty of them. Because you need them.
Nice trolling, but very cheap.
Since the final product you sell is a t-shirt (not a design), you can use Creazilla assets for your shop. There’s no contradiction. FAQ shows a picture of someone putting the image on a Tshirt - all this is about selling a design for t-shirt (not about a physical product).
License FAQ takes part of the license as it is provided by the licensor for a better understanding of the license.
Go. Talk. To. A. Lawyer. This is a FALSE statement. You will find yourself in legal trouble trying to argue this in court. Which is where you will have to go if you want to do anything more than sending an email asking nicely for someone else to take your assets off their site.
I’m not trolling you. I’m trying to be helpful. But since you don’t want that, good luck to you. Your only recourse is a failing legal one at this point.
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