Clickfootage Marketplace - are venues for the sale of your content. Anyone can become an author and sell their files on the site.
It is important to realise that as a venue for item sales, Clickfootage is not acting as your agent and that transactions are between you and the purchaser. This has the legal implication that if you are doing something wrong such as breaching copyright, you are responsible and liable. The consequences of unlawful action can be severe, so please take care.
How does Authoring work?
The authoring process is relatively simple. As an author, you complete an upload form, taking care to prepare your files properly. Once uploaded the items are inspected by our review team to ensure the items work and are a good fit for the library. If your item is approved, the reviewer inspecting your item will give it an appropriate price and the item will appear in the library.
How Do Authors Make Money?
If your item is approved for sale, you will receive 50% of each sale.
Each sale of one of your items will result in an increased earnings balance in your account. Your earnings can be used in the following ways:
All payment requests are processed at the start of each new month and paid out on the 15th.
In order for a item to be accepted on Clickfootage site it needs to be in certain formats and fulfill our quality standards. Each file type has its own upload instructions and file preparation guidelines. These can be found in the Help page . As a general guide, all items require:
One of the main technical requirements is that the downloadable ZIP contains files that are as customizable as possible. This may mean keeping all layers in a Photoshop file intact, or providing extensive help documentation for a AE project file , or preparing multiple versions of a video loop.
By keeping the marketplac packed with high quality content, we ensure that buyers are more likely to come here to find their files. This increases sales and profits for everyone. When the review staff inspect your items, they will be considering these criteria:
Occasionally items will be rejected for other reasons. Some of these reasons might be:
As an author you have the responsibility to only sell files that belong to you. By selling an item, you are making an agreement not only with Clickfootage but with anyone who buys your file that you own full copyright to that item, and have appropriately licensed any auxiliary content that it makes use of.
As it can sometimes be confusing to define what might be a copyright infringement, it is very important that you read this section thoroughly.
If after reading this you are still unclear you should Contact Support to answer any questions you have. It is essential that you understand the Clickfootage legal requirements before you begin uploading files. Clickfootage takes copyright violation very seriously. If we discover that a work has violated copyright we will ban the author from Clickfootage, seize any funds made from the sale of that work and in some cases take legal action – so make sure you know the rules!
What is Copyright?
You can find a full definition of copyright on the U.S. Copyright office website and how it relates to international copyright relations. Here is a short description:
Copyright is a legal concept that gives the creator of an original work exclusive rights to it. The copyright holder has the right to choose if anyone else can use, adapt or resell their work and have the right to be credited for that work.
Only the copyright holder of a work may do the following:
The creator of a work retains copyright to it even if they don't expressly tell you so.
Licenses and Using Other People's Work
For you to make use of another person's work you need an express license to do so. So for example if you purchase a stock photo you are actually purchasing the license to use that stock photo in a certain way. Different licenses allow you to do different things. You need to look carefully at licenses to see what they permit and what they do not. Specifically to use an asset like a photo, music loop or code snippet, you need a license that allows the asset's use in items for resale and redistribution.
In plain English, the license has to say that you can use it in something you're selling and distributing. If you don't have such a license you may be unlawfully profiting off someone else's work!
What happens if there doesn't appear to be a license?
Oftentimes you will find something that you wish to use which doesn't appear to be licensed. For example you may have followed a tutorial which didn't expressly permit or forbid its use in an item for resale and redistribution. In this situation you must contact the original copyright holder and get written permission.
The penalties for breaching copyright can be severe.Clickfootage takes copyright violations very seriously and will not tolerate copyright violation on Clickfootage site
What is a Copyright Infringement?
A copyright infringement or violation is the unauthorized use of work that is covered by copyright. If you use, alter or sell someone else's work you are violating their copyright and are breaking the law.
If you sell files on Clickfootage site, purchasers of your content are given the right to use your content in their projects without paying any further fees or charges after the initial download cost. They may freely use your content in whatever way they choose with the exception that they cannot use your content for redistribution.
If you do not want to or cannot grant these rights, they cannot be sold on Clickfootage site. Please do not upload them.
The cost of purchase of each file is decided during the review process, based on a number of factors.
If an author disagrees with the cost of purchase of an approved file, they can Contact Support. Support will then reevaluate the file, and if the file is under or overpriced will change the cost of purchase accordingly.
Prices may be reevaluated and/or changed solely at the discretion of Clickfootage staff.
