As many of our Envato Marketplace authors will know, I recently posted up on Notes about Use of Assets in Previews on Envato Marketplaces. We’ve had a lot of discussion on the post and the forums, and I’m going to be following up on the post with a series here on Notes to clarify and educate authors more on these issues.

It’s really important to us that all our authors understand how to respect other people’s intellectual property. At the end of the day, intellectual property is what is being sold on the Envato Marketplaces, so it just makes sense that we should be respectful and mindful of others as we wish them to be of our own. There’s lots of articles in the Wiki’s Copyright section which are worth reading as a refresher. Continue Reading

Since our inception back in 2006, the Envato Marketplaces have seen three rate rises for our exclusive authors. Today I’m very excited to announce the first upgrade to our non-exclusive rate. We’re increasing author commissions from 25% up to 33% as of December 1st. This means our non-exclusive authors will earn about a third more on each sale.
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If you’re a regular GraphicRiver user you may have noticed that a new category has appeared in the menu – Logo Templates. It’s a bit of a controversial category to launch, in fact we’ve had a few lively threads on the forums already in response to it!

The Envato Marketplaces let authors sell virtually every type of creative asset imaginable. In fact we are constantly adding new classes of digital goods and expanding into new areas. Selling some form of stock logos has been on the books for some time, as there are some rather large libraries around online that seem to indicate that it’s something both authors and buyers are interested in.

Logos as stock, however, is tricky for a number of reasons. The primary one is that for a regular branding and logo design job, there is much more than just picking out a neat little icon and arranging it with some text. A logo designer needs to deliver a solution that reflects the unique business and branding issues of the project.

Moreover a logo is something that is meant to represent a business and potentially be trademarked. So how can multiple businesses use the same imagery?

After a lot of internal debate and research, we have come to the conclusion that both issues can be addressed and we are beginning our foray into the controversial world of logo templates. Let me explain. Continue Reading