Posts by jonathan01

Nice idea but for those with 30+ wordpress themes etc they would have to have an option of “building” this pack and that may get too complicated for the marketplaces – shame as essentially it’s a good thought for increased sales – just would need a lot of planning and discussion.

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Jonathan

This was somewhat understandable however it has also resulted in a major restriction to active authors – it’s why we as a company have to look to sell items on other marketplaces also now I’m afraid… shame really.

(Please don’t anyone tell me that exposure on the homepage has nothing to do with how well initial sales go – I have facts and figures and breakdowns over 4 years at themeforest – not being rude or anything but it’s the canned response most of the time)

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Jonathan

outerspice said
UPDATE :

I found a pretty cool library of movie poster type images on Flickr in the Creative Commons library! Check it out: http://www.flickr.com/search/?l=4&w=all&q=movie&m=text

This might work perfectly for my needs. Keep in mind these require Attribution

I’ll post more resources as I come across them to help out others in my situation.

Keep in mind also that the people uploading those images in to that category are possibly NOT (and looking through are definitely not) the copyright holder to start with…. therefore the license is null and void – still owned by the copyright holder I’m afraid.

Just want to mention that the exclusive agreement you have with Envato is that you are agreeing to sell your item through their marketplaces and you are not giving any rights away to your items in anyway whatsoever – you created them, they are yours.

Authors are NOT giving any rights away to ownership of your work and if you give the odd copy of YOUR work now and again without any monetary transfer of any kind you are not technically breaking your exclusive agreement.

Now having said that – they have full discretion at anytime for any reason (reason is not needed to be given) to cancel your membership and if you just started to give copy after copy of your item away for free then you would no doubt risk this happening as it would hurt the exclusive agreement of selling the item to mutual benefit (both parties earning money) and therefore you are killing your own business.

Remember that if your item is found on free download sites YOU the author and copyright holder of the item is solely responsible for taking action against this website by sending a DMCA – not Envato.

The ONLY thing that could be taken as a caution in the legal terms you agree to is this:

notify us of any information which may affect or assist in sales of your Product(s);

Which is a very open ended statement and could mean many things – basically it means you shouldn’t do anything that may cause loss of sales for the item you have entered in to a partnership with Envato to sell – of course giving items away would do this – so with caution, and common sense if someone such as a charity contacts you and are looking for a donation of your theme but would not purchase any item anyway then you are not effected the sale of your item. Again it’s a bit of a sticky one, but in all honesty if this odd occurrence happens simply contacting support or the marketplace manager and explaining what you are wanting to do I think it wouldn’t be great PR for Envato to refuse this.

If I am incorrect in any way I look forward to hearing the details from Envato or one of it’s employees in a position to outline in more detail the terms and conditions which we agreed to. No one wants to be breaking the agreement and therefore if I am wrong maybe we need it clarifying in the terms about giving items we own away for free (not all the time obviously – just now and again)

Thanks everyone.

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Jonathan

This is a genius idea and I say drop everything devs, let’s get this done #notgonnahappenbutwouldbeawesome

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Jonathan

things look good for me in latest FF on mac…

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Jonathan

I agree with you and have to say we create our themes this way – html first – then insert php code to create the functions – functions file of theme does the horse work so that a theme can be customized easily – we do use theme options but basically even if you didn’t have a theme options panel it should work regardless to some degree (obviously some aspects will not as they are powered by the admin panel) – but generally I agree with you on this – what’s the point of making things very complex…

Interesting to see the answers on this one for sure.

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Jonathan

Hi dekciw

I would suggest supplying a link to your website and portfolio for serious consideration by any authors looking to outsource any work plus some testimonials – neither of which should be an issue if you have been doing this for 4 years.

I tried going to your email address domain and it looks like… well not sure what it is..maybe a default server setup for a virtual host?

Hope that helps you out and good luck!

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Jonathan

peerforest said
i am about to upload a psd template and i have used movie posters in my banner.

so my straight question is can i bundle those photos in main files as well. as the movie posters are of open license i think, or just comment me if i am wrong.

and the other question i need to ask (though, its not related to preview image issue.) i need to know what matter to write in the txt file for each psd page we prepare. what kind of description should we include ?

Here is what I understand ( I have no legal training whatsoever so you may want to seek official legal advise on this) – and regardless to what Envato state it’s pretty much law so you have to abide by it whether someone states otherwise or not.

1 – if you do not have a license or permission from the copyright holder for an image that clearly states you can redistribute the image it cannot be included in your files.

2 – If you have a license or permission from the copyright holder for an image that states you can redistribute an image in your own files then you can.

3 – if you don’t have copyright owners permission or a license you can’t use it at all – not even in your live preview – you don’t own the image therefore you have no right to use it.

Having said all this it’s up to you to take your own chances with your own live preview – it’s really one of the reasons that Envato do not host live previews so they cannot be held responsible – you are – if you use an image you are not supposed to then that copyright owner could send a DMCA to your host and shut you down for infringement.

All movie posters are copyright of their respective owners (I know this from experience).

Hope that helps

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Jonathan

Thanks – I’ve worked with both and no you’re still out of order with your comment – wordpress can run some huge sites – admin is just as easy if not easier on wordpress and based on the request from the OP there’s nothing you need Joomla for bud.

This is not an argument about which is best it’s about giving correct information to the poster which is that wordpress is fine they need to look around for something that fits their requirements or something close and get with a dev or author and pay a little to mould in to what they want.

Thanks

Jonathan