Big Body Tees — Artwork & Intellectual Property Policy

Effective: [DATE] Version: 1.0 (DRAFT — not yet attorney-reviewed)

This policy is incorporated into the Customer Agreement. It governs every piece of artwork you supply to us and every print we produce.

1. Your representation and warranty

When you submit artwork to us — or direct us to use any logo, image, slogan, name, or likeness — you represent and warrant that you own it, you created it, or you have a written license that allows commercial reproduction on apparel and resale of the apparel. This includes:

All trademarks, service marks, and trade dress
All copyrighted images, illustrations, photographs, and designs
All names, likenesses, and signatures of identifiable individuals
All third-party fonts and typefaces (most retail fonts require a license for commercial use)
All AI-generated images and designs (you represent that you have rights sufficient for commercial use under the AI tool's terms of service)

If we ask for proof of ownership or license — for example, a registration certificate, a license agreement, a signed model release, or a written assignment — you agree to provide it within 48 hours or we may pause your order.

2. What we will not print

We reserve the right, at our sole discretion, to refuse or stop production of any order that we reasonably believe involves any of the following. This list is not exhaustive.

a. Trademarks of major brands (e.g., Nike, Adidas, Disney, MLB, NFL, NBA, NCAA team marks, NHL, college team marks, university seals, branded characters, branded slogans) without written license.

b. Copyrighted characters and works (Disney, Marvel, Pixar, Universal, anime studios, video-game franchises, sports leagues, music artists, movie studios) without written license.

c. Counterfeits or knockoffs of any commercial product.

d. Identifiable individuals' likenesses or names (athletes, celebrities, musicians, politicians, public figures, deceased persons whose estates assert publicity rights) without written release or license. This includes photographs of any identifiable person you do not have a release for.

e. Hate symbols, terror-organization imagery, gang imagery, or material that promotes violence against any group.

f. Sexually explicit material, including nudity intended to titillate. (Standard art-historical or anatomical nudity may be allowed at our discretion.)

g. Material the United States or Georgia has classified as illegal to depict (child sexual abuse material is the obvious one).

h. Defamatory or harassing content targeting an identifiable person or business.

i. Confidential or stolen content — designs you took from a former employer, designs you commissioned but did not pay for, designs scraped from a competing brand's website, etc.

j. Election or campaign materials — we may decline at our discretion to avoid being drawn into political disputes.

k. Anything we determine, in our reasonable judgment, would expose us to legal action, regulatory inquiry, or material reputational harm.

If we refuse an order under this section, we will refund your deposit minus any work already performed (typically design or proof labor). If we discover the issue mid-production, we may cancel under §6 of the Customer Agreement.

3. Indemnification

You acknowledge and agree to the indemnification obligations in §6 of the Customer Agreement. In short: if a third party sues, threatens, fines, or otherwise pursues us for printing your artwork, you cover the cost — including attorneys' fees, court costs, settlement amounts, and damages — even after your order is delivered.

4. Technical specs

a. Acceptable file types. PNG (transparent background, ≥ 300 DPI), SVG, AI, EPS, PDF (vector), PSD (with named layers). For raster files, the print-resolution requirement is 300 DPI at the final print size.

b. Color. We print in process color (CMYK) for full-color designs and spot color (Pantone-matched as best we can) for one- or two-color designs. Pantone-matching on cotton is approximate; exact matches across dye lots are not guaranteed.

c. File submission. Email to art@bigbodytees.com after we send the quote, with the order number in the subject line. We do not accept artwork via text message; image compression destroys print quality.

d. What we cannot fix. Pixelated images, stretched or distorted logos, low-resolution screenshots, and artwork in unsupported formats. We will tell you and offer our $75 mockup service to recreate it.

5. Mockups, design services, and ownership of design work

a. The $75 mockup service covers digital placement of your existing artwork on a garment so you can preview it. Mockups produced under this service remain examples, not new artwork; you keep what you brought, we keep nothing.

b. Custom design ($250–$500 quoted separately) covers original design work we create for you. Unless we agree otherwise in writing, we transfer ownership of the final delivered artwork to you upon full payment. We reserve a non-exclusive right to display the work in our portfolio and marketing.

c. What we will not design for you. We follow §2 of this policy when creating original artwork. If your brief calls for content covered by §2, we will tell you and decline.

6. License you grant us

For artwork you supply to us or that we create under this Agreement, you grant Big Body Tees a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to:

Reproduce the artwork on the apparel you ordered
Photograph and display the finished apparel for our portfolio, social media, and marketing materials (subject to your opt-out per Customer Agreement §13c)
Store the artwork file for 12 months for potential reorders, after which we may delete it

You retain ownership of artwork you brought to us. Nothing in this Agreement transfers your rights to us, except the limited license above.

7. Reorders

For 12 months after your most recent order, we keep your artwork file on hand. To reorder the same artwork on the same garment specs, just call or email — we'll quote and you'll qualify for the 10% reorder discount under our standard pricing. After 12 months we may purge the file; you'll need to resubmit it for any future order.

8. Reporting infringement

If you believe artwork on a Big Body Tees product infringes your intellectual property, please contact us at hello@bigbodytees.com with:

Identification of the work or mark you claim is infringed
Identification of the allegedly infringing artwork (a Big Body Tees order number, or a photo)
Your contact information
A statement that you have a good-faith belief the use is unauthorized
A statement, under penalty of perjury, that the information is accurate and that you are the rights holder or authorized to act on their behalf

We will investigate, and we will work in good faith to resolve legitimate complaints — including stopping production of unfilled orders, removing photos from our marketing, and (where appropriate) pursuing the customer who supplied the infringing artwork.

Customer: By submitting any artwork to Big Body Tees, you confirm that you have read this policy, agree to be bound by it, and accept the indemnification obligations in §6 of the Customer Agreement.