Please read the following information carefully before using any item found on the WORLD OF FROUD website or any artwork by Brian, Wendy or Toby Froud. By accessing or using the WORLD OF FROUD website, you agree to be legally bound by our Terms of Use and Copyrights. If you do not wish to be bound by these requirements, please do not use the World of Froud website or Froud artwork.

Trademarks, Copyrights and Restrictions

The WORLD OF FROUD website is administered by IMAGINOSIS ("Imaginosis," "we," "us," or "our"). If you wish to reach us directly, you may contact us here.

The WORLD OF FROUD website was created to be both useful and entertaining. All materials on the WORLD OF FROUD website ("Online Materials"), including, without limitation, names, logos, trademarks, service marks, images, illustrations, audio clips, and video clips, are protected by copyrights and other intellectual property rights owned and controlled by WORLD OF FROUD, IMAGINOSIS or by other parties that have licensed their material to WORLD OF FROUD. No Online Material may be copied, reproduced, republished, modified, uploaded, posted, transmitted, distributed in any way, or otherwise used for any purpose without the prior written permission of their respective owners. You may not add, delete, distort, or otherwise modify the contents on the WORLD OF FROUD website. Any unauthorized attempts to modify any Online Material, to defeat or circumvent our security features, or to utilize the WORLD OF FROUD website for other than their intended purposes are prohibited.

Artwork displayed and distributed on the worldoffroud.com website
The images, backgrounds, animations, clipart and other graphics displayed on the World of Froud websites are created by Fionaurora Productions and are for use exclusively on these websites (worldoffroud.com, faeries.net, got-goblins.com, etc.).  These items may not be used, displayed and/or distributed for any other purposes whether it be for personal or commercial use. Doing so will be considered a break of our copyrights.

Images not created by Fionaurora Productions and displayed on the World of Froud websites will have copyright information next to the respective images. These images are copyright the applicable owners and were used with permission. These images may not be used without the applicable owners written permission. Doing so will be considered a break of their copyrights.

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Displaying Froud artwork on a personal website
If your website is strictly for personal use then you may display up to a total of FIVE Froud artworks via your entire number of personal websites. In order to be within our copyrights you must display the image(s) according to the following rules. If these rules are not followed you will be in breach of our copyrights and be notified of this breach. If necessary, legal action will be taken.

DISPLAY RULES:

• You must display our copyright information next to each image (or on the image itself) and link back to worldoffroud.com's copyright page. The copyright notice should state: "Title of Image" is copyright (or the © symbol) "Brian/Wendy/Toby" Froud. Please visit World of Froud (must be hyperlinked to worldoffroud.com's copyright page) for more on this artist. This image may not be distributed or altered in any format.

• You may display up to FIVE Froud artwork images on any of your personal sites. For example, you are only allowed to display a total of FIVE Froud artwork images regardless of the number of personal sites you own/use.

• Images may not be taken from World of Froud's websites nor linking to images located on worldoffroud.com. Doing so is considered bandwidth theft and a breach of our terms of use. The only images allowed for distribution is our World of Froud banners located HERE. Again, these must be saved onto your own website's server and not linked directly to the worldoffroud.com banner image location.

• The images may not be altered or changed in any method. What this means is that the Froud artwork image must be displayed in the original format. By altering the original format/look is considered a break of copyrights.

• The image itself must serve as a direct link to the worldoffroud.com's copyright page. Meaning if someone clicks on the image, they should always be taken directly to this page.

• If you are wanting to provide a link to worldoffroud.com you may use a text link or an image link. If using an image link you may only use the authorized banners. Our banners are located here.

• You may not post images to websites that are image exchange sites or photo albums, such as "web shots" or "Yahoo's! photo album," as these images tend to get distributed by search engines and lose our copyright notifications.

• You may not use a Froud artwork image and alter it to create a web background, animations, ring logo, avatar icons, website logo or other means of altering this image. Doing so is a breach of our copyrights and in some cases is considered 'commercial' usage.

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Displaying Froud artwork in any other electronic format
World of Froud™ does not allow Froud artwork to be distributed in any other electronic format without written permission.

Examples of illegal usage in an electronic format are greeting/post cards, electronic flyers/newspapers/mailers, non-authorized web graphics, web sets, electronic stationary and signature tags, tubes and brushes, computer backgrounds, computer screen savers and chat board/forum icons. Creating, using and/or distributing this type of artwork is a violation of copyright laws and will not be tolerated. No permission will be granted for these distributions.

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Displaying Froud artwork on clothing, wood, or other materials
To display a representation of Froud artwork on an object for personal use is not a break of copyright laws. To distribute one or more items of your creation and/or sell a representation of Froud artwork without WORLD OF FROUD permission is a violation of copyright laws. This type of distribution is considered 'commercial use.' Any form of commercial use is prohibited due to existing licenses by WORLD OF FROUD. For special requests you can contact the Froud's publicist at Imaginosis.com.

Displaying Froud artwork in paper format (publications, pamphlets, books, flyers, etc.)
To display a representation of Froud artwork on an object for personal use is not a break of copyright laws. To distribute one or more items of your creation and/or sell a representation of Froud artwork without WORLD OF FROUD permission is a violation of copyright laws. This type of distribution is considered 'commercial use.' Any form of commercial use is prohibited due to existing licenses by WORLD OF FROUD. For special requests you can contact the Froud's publicist at Imaginosis.com.

Using Froud artwork as a permanent tattoo:
We love seeing Froud tattoos, especially when you submit them as a Froudian tattoo! We also love seeing the creativity the tattoo artist brings to a piece of Froud artwork! However, we now require that the tattoo artist gives you their design (if drawn beforehand) when your tattoo is finished. This is just to be sure that the tattoo artist does not begin selling Froud artwork as their own design as this would fall under commercial usage.

Please note, if you are a tattoo artist you are not allowed to display Froud artwork amongst your available designs as this is breaking copyrights (see under commercial usage).

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Froud artwork distributed via WorldofFroud.com
World of Froud™ has provided several items for personal usage to our Froudians. These come in the forms of World of Froud backgrounds, greeting cards, Faeries' Oracle online as well as World of Froud banners. World of Froud allows these items to be used for personal use. However, taking any of these items and displaying and/or distributing them via any method is and a breach of our copyrights and in most cases considered 'commercial' use. The only items allowed to be displayed on a website are our World of Froud banners (located here).

Displaying and/or distributing our Froudian gifts is a violation of copyright laws and will not be tolerated. No permission will be granted for these distributions.

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Using Froud artwork for commercial use:
Any form of commercial use is prohibited due to existing licenses by WORLD OF FROUD. For special requests you can contact the Froud's publicist at Imaginosis.com. For a list of existing commercial sites that use/sell Froud artwork with permission, please visit our merchandise sections.

Written materials on the worldoffroud.com website
All written text are for use exclusively on the World of Froud website (worldoffroud.com).  These items may not be used and/or distributed for any other purposes whether it be for personal or commercial use. Doing so will be considered a break of our copyrights.

Text that have been credited and displayed on the worldoffroud.com will have ownership information next to the respective documentation. These are copyright the applicable owners and were used with permission. Using them without the applicable owners written permission will be considered a break of their copyrights.

Displaying Froud text on a personal or commercial website

• You may place a quote from Brian, Wendy, and/or Toby Froud on your website.
• You may take a section of text from a source of material copyrighted by World of Froud in order to describe an image or book HOWEVER:
  • You may not distribute or display whole sections, pages, etc. of a textual source.

If you want to use a quote from the artist or a textual source, you must do the following:

• You must provide source information next to each quote (or as a footnote or other easily found/seen version of reference) as found on source. You must also link back to worldoffroud.com's copyright page. The copyright notice should state something like: Quote is taken from "Source name" and is copyright (or the © symbol) "Brian/Wendy/Toby" Froud. Please visit World of Froud (must be hyperlinked to worldoffroud.com's copyright page) for more on this artist/author.

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Displaying Froud text in any other format
If you want to use a quote from the artist or a textual source, you must do the following:

• You must provide source information next to each quote (or as a footnote or other easily found/seen version of reference) as found on source. For example, if you are quoting the book "Faeries" in an essay you would need to state your source something like: "Faeries" is written by Brian Froud and Alan Lee. Copyright 1978.

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What is Copyright?
Copyright (usually displayed as © ) is a way for us to protect our creations. Whether something is written, painted, photographed, sung, choreographed, coded- it is most likely protected by copyright (whether or not you are notified of it's copyright).

Basically copyright provides the owner of the work to have exclusive right over their work while being legally able to prevent others from doing what they will to their creations. For example, only the creator can change the look of a painting not anyone who has access to that painting.

For more on copyrights we highly suggest these websites:

• What Is Copyright.org
• Rights for Artists.com

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What is Personal Use vs. Commercial Use? What is not allowed?
When we refer to personal vs. commercial we are generally referring to the reason you have created a website, pamphlet, clothing article, etc. If you were considering distributing any item that has Froud artwork on it, this would be considered commercial use. If you have a website where your primary function is to display personal information, then this would be considered a personal website.

Examples of usages that are Not Allowed:

• Nonprofit organization websites, pamphlets, etc
• School/Theater/Music function items
• Corporations, small - big business items
• Link exchange websites
• Business logos, labels, etc.
• Any form of written work where Froud artwork is used as illustration. Doing this implies that the Froud's have endorsed your work. This is actually illegal and you must get written permission before using Froud art in this method. (click here for more on this)

Why can't I link directly to worldoffroud.com's images? How is this breaking your terms of use?
First, using any images from any of the World of Froud websites is an infringement of copyrights. Click here for more information.

Second, linking directly to a worldoffroud.com image is stealing bandwidth which is illegal. By entering the worldoffroud.com website you have agreed to follow our terms of use and copyright rules. Linking in this method is considered a breach of our terms of use.

I have made a Froud background/screen saver for my personal computer. Is this allowed? Can I let visitors to my website download this background/screen saver?
We would prefer you to use an authorized background provided by World of Froud (located here). Since we cannot prevent you from altering Froud artwork to display on your personal computer you may do so as long as it is not distributed via a website or any other format. Distribution of this type of item is a breach of copyrights and will not be tolerated.

Please note, that the computer backgrounds are meant for your personal computer and not as a 'website' background.

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I wrote a poem/story/prose and want to use Froud artwork to illustrate my work. How is this a break in copyrights?
If you wrote a story, poem, prose, etc and used Froud artwork to illustrate your written work for personal use than this would not break copyrights. However, if you printed this document and gave it to anyone or posted this document on a website then this would be considered a distribution of your work and would no longer fall under 'personal use.'

The reason this is tricky is because your written work is also copyrighted and when you post your work along with the Froud artwork on the internet or in a pamphlet where it is no longer being seen by 'just you' it is implying that the Froud's have endorsed your work and have given permission for their work to be used as illustrations. Even if you have listed all the applicable World of Froud™ copyrights, this is still illegal and you must get written permission before using Froud artwork in this method.

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I've seen Froud artwork being used illegally! What do I do?
Please contact us here about any illegal usage of World of Froud™ art and/or Froud artwork. We appreciate your concern and will review the questionable usage promptly! Please do not contact the person directly as you may upset them when they may not really breaking copyrights.

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The World of Froud™ Copyrights were last updated November, 2004.