Royalty Free Cartoon Clipart Restrictions & Rules

Please read before making a purchase.

Making a purchase.
Find the character that you would like, click on the PayPal button and purchase. You can use your PayPal account or any major credit card.

Do any copyrights come with the character?
Nope. We retain all rights to each cartoon character. You are entering into a non-exclusive agreement to use the character. All rights are owned by Curtis D. Tucker d.b.a. Shaggy Duck Studios.

Can I copyright or trademark your characters?
Nope. Our characters are already copyrighted by us. We do not file for trademarks on this collection of characters due to the nature of their use.

Can I resell your character or include it in my own CD collection?
Nope. Your purchase does not include the ability to transfer this character to a third party. You may not use these characters to create logos for anyone other than yourself. These characters cannot be burned to a CD and given to a third party other than your printer. These characters cannot be added to any other clip art collection.

You may not add these characters to any clip art collection online or otherwise. The purchase of a character is for your personal or business use only. No third parties can enter into an agreement concerning one of our characters.

Do I have to pay more each time I use the character?
Nope. These characters are royalty free images. Your one time purchase allows you unlimited use, forever, of these characters in accordance with the rules on this site.

Royalty free characters allow you the freedom that trademarked and licensed characters do not. Licensed images are governed by contracts that define how the images may be used. Users who want to make sure a particular image won’t be used by a competitor, for example, will want to invest in a licensed character. These images are often more expensive and contain more complex contracts.

Can I print your characters on merchandise and sell it?
Yep. That’s the point of this whole site now isn’t it? We create fun, wacky characters and you print them on custom t-shirts and merchandise which you then turn around and sell. Whatever you make you get to keep.

In other words, let’s say you buy character A for $29. You add a funny saying of your own and print it on a million t-shirts and sell them for a profit of $7.42 each. You would pocket over 741 million dollars and we’d still be stuck with our $29.

These cartoon characters are all about you! This is your opportunity to open a t-shirt business and use our low cost characters to get it going. You can sell greeting cards with our images on them but you cannot sell our images to Hallmark to use on their cards. Does that make sense?

Can I use a character as part of my company logo?
Yep. These are the exact same style and quality of characters we create for our custom clients at a fourth of the cost. Use these characters in unique ways with unique fonts and you’ll have a logo just as original as one created by a top notch advertising agency.

Can I use a cartoon character for free?
Nope.

Can I alter a character?
Yep. Use our characters as a base for your own original ideas. Altered characters must still conform to the rules above and cannot be resold as new characters or combined with a client logo for a 3rd party.

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