
will have been licensed to you as royalty-free meaning that the other owners can’t try to recoup royalties from your designs. In real life, you won’t have to worry much about this because those other elements: the stock images, fonts, etc. Therefore, you will be the owner of your final design because it’s your original composition/layout but the individual elements will be owned by the original copyright owner/creator. The original creators of those individual elements (either Canva or it’s contributors) retain ownership of those elements – you’re simply granted a license (in other words permission) to incorporate it in your design. But the second that you begin to incorporate the various design elements available on Canva, it becomes a messy, gray area. In plain English, anything that you upload to Canva is considered your “User Content” and you retain all ownership in it. It’s incredibly important to know the in’s and out’s of using Canva since it’s so popular these days.Įxcept for your User Content, the Service and all materials therein or transferred thereby, including, without limitation,software, images, text, graphics, illustrations, logos, patents, trademarks, service marks, copyrights, photographs, audio, videos, music, User Content belonging to other Users, and Stock Media belonging to other Users (the “Canva Content”), and all Intellectual Property Rights related thereto, are the exclusive property of Canva and its licensors.
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very.” Canva has five license agreements and I wanted to provide an overview of each one. In short, the answer to this question is “It’s complicated.


I wanted to write a follow-up blog post on one question that came up because it required a more detailed response than I could give in a few minutes. I fielded legal questions from creative entrepreneurs and bloggers, and had a blast. Earlier this year, I had the opportunity to host an Ask-A-Lawyer desk at Alt Design Summit.
