License ASA-C+, The Basic Commercial License

Price: $150 for commissions under $100

OR a License upgrade cost of $100, on commissions whose total price is $100 or more after discounts

Applicable only to the finished work(s) as delivered to you by email once the art is complete, and not any of the work-in-progress screenshots/samples, recorded footage of the creation process, or any assets created by Ash Something Art such as fonts, digital brushes or patterns used in the finished work, or “elements” used to create the work.

Terms of the ASA-BC License:

  • This is a Non-Exclusive License:
    Ash Something Art is considered the Author of the work and retains all rights granted by authorship including: Use of the work in my portfolio and website, as well as for commercial reasons limited to marketing and advertising of myself and the services I offer.
    You obtain Ownership of the art/IP. You may register copyright on the work, and claim any other rights/protections granted to the Owner of an IP by US copyright law.
  • This license Requires Attribution:
    As Ash Something Art is the Author, stating so is still required under this license. For proper attribution, you must do ALL of the following:
    • You must leave the watermark intact on the art on any and all platforms you upload it to. 
    • You must include the following text (verbatim) in the body text of the work on any and all locations it is uploaded/published on:
    • You must tag the official page or profile of Ash Something Art on the platform you are posting. The links and @ for each active platform may be found here: https://ashsomething.art/ash-something-online/ .
  • This license is Non-transferable/Not Licensable/Sublicensable:
    You may not grant rights to or permissions for the work to another person/entity or sell this license over the work to another person/entity. The exceptions to this are as follows:
    • You may upload the work to, and grant the license required by the Terms of Service of, any and all social media platforms, or seller’s markets so as to display and sell the work as required in the Commercial clause of this license.
  • Edits, and Adaptations Allowed:
    You may modify and adapt the work as you see fit, as it pertains to your needs for the work including but not limited to: Changing the color, cropping, and otherwise modifying the work, so long as the attribution is carried over to all places where these edited and adapted versions are used/published.
  • No Derivatives:
    You may not copy, trace, replicate or redraw the work so as to subvert Ash Something Art’s right to authorship of the work.
  • Limited Commercial Use Allowed:
    You may use this work to market and advertise your business, to sell prints or merch, to offer as a reward behind paywalled subscription services and so forth as long as you adhere to the rest of the terms of this license, and any other use of commercial use of the work which does not subvert Ash Something Art’s authorship rights to the work. You may not sell the work as an NFT or upload it into an AI database. See below.
  • Royalty Free:
    The license granted on this work does not require you to pay royalties to Ash Something Art for your use of the work for commercial reasons.
  • No AI is used or Allowed on this work:
    You may not upload this work on any AI training database for any reason. You may not use AI filters on this artwork to modify it in any way or for any reason. AI usage regardless of reason or intent is disallowed on any and all art which Ash Something Art retains authorship of. Uploading the work into an AI database to create generated images in a similar style or to create variations of it breaches the No Derivatives clause outlined above.
  • No NFT Usage Permitted:
    NFT use requires the transfer of ownership from one right’s holder to the next; Ash Something Art remains the Author of this work and you may not claim or transfer that right to any other entity. For this reason, NFT Usage is disallowed on any and ALL art which Ash Something Art retains Authorship of. Whn selling an NFT on the blockchain you must sell the full IP Rights to the image- this license grants you Ownership rights but not Authorship rights, which means that you do not have the FULL IP RIGHTS to sell- it is considered a 50-50 ownership between yourself and Ash Something Art over these rights.
  • In-Perpetuity:
    Once this license has been granted, you retain the license forever UNLESS you breach the TOS or use the work in a way which is disallowed by the terms of this license. You do not have to renew this license at any point unless you have broken the terms of service, at which point you must also have provided damages/recompense demanded by Ash Something Art and reinstated yourself to good standing, and regained your ability to purchase a commission/license from Ash Something Art, and are in good standing with the company.

What you recieve when you purchase the ASA-BC License:

  • WIP Screenshots of the work as it is being made, including but not limited to the Sketch, Revised Sketch, Line Art, Revised Line Art, Flat Color, Revised Flat Color, Cell Shaded, Revised Cell Shaded, OR Rendered/Revised Rendered Versions, as they pertain to the detail tier you ordered
  • WIP Screenshots of any text or graphic editing required 
  • One Revision per Detail Level requested (See Section VI. Revisions)
  • The optional “Add Text: Basic” commission Add-On, valued at $50 (free of charge) so as to turn your image into a logo or printable graphic.
  • A complimentary variant of the work, and a copy of this variant in all the file types you receive for the original
  • The completed artwork in the form of:
    • 1x 1500x2000px Jpeg with my watermark for attribution
    • 1x 2000x2000px Jpeg with my watermark for attribution
    • 1x Full Resolution (18×24” 300dpi) Jpeg
    • 1x Full Resolution (18×24” 300dpi) PNG with transparent background
    • The Ash Something Art watermark is removed on all print-ready/full resolution files. Your printed versions do not need my watermark, every other publication does. Attribution and credit is still otherwise required on all versions and publications, asoutlined in the terms of the license ASIDE from displaying this logo/watermark on the printed/tangible items
    • A simplified version of the source file which reduces the layers down to only those necessary: The character/figure, the Background, The Foreground, and any text will each be on their own layer.
  • A written License agreement sent via Docusign for you to sign and return so we both can retain a copy of the license granted to you for our reference and any legal disputes