Is linking images to Redbubble allowed?
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I’m getting quite worried about linking my artwork that I have in my blog, to where the images reside in my gallery pages on Redbubble. The reason my anxiety about it is because each of of my Redbubble pages (on Redbubble, I mean, not on my blog) has a ‘buy’ button on it. It’s where I try to sell my work. (‘try’ being the operative word here). Does this go against the TOS or advertising policy on WordPress? Is it regarded as 3rd party advertising or advertising or monetising at all? I’ve hunted around the forum and support pages for a couple of hours and can’t suss out if it does or not. I see people able to sell via etsy which seems to me a similar set-up, but as I’m not on Etsy, maybe it isn’t. If it does go against the rules here, I shall remove the links and put do the linking to the images it flickr or similar. (I was originally linking from the media library in my blog, but the progressive rendering is very slow). I’ve also mentioned Redbubble in my side panel and a page. Do I need to remove that?
My blog is important to me as a place to share elements of my life with people, the artwork being a part of that, but if it’s going to lose me my blog, I will change it.
Hope you can advise me. I don’t think this is a support issue, but if it is, let me know and I’ll contact support instead.
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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Also, I’ve re-read the advertising rules, the types of blog and the TOS and still can’t work out if I might be doing anything wrong or not.
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WordPress.com is supportive of creators (artists, artisans, authors, musicians, etc.) Retailing and/or reselling the work of others is not supported. I think you ought to go directly to Staff then you will have a definitive answer rather than speculation and/or opinion. http://en.support.wordpress.com/contact/
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/nod to timethief
Selling your own artwork, things that you create, is not a problem, but contact staff about it just for your own reassurance.
I know several people who sell their own art on their blogs here, or from an etsy shop, and redbubble looks like the same sort of thing.
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Redbubble is very cool indeed. As has been said, your work so link freely.
http://www.redbubble.com/t-shirts/featured
Worth time looking through, better still buy some :) -
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Ah – many thanks!!
:)
Best news I’ve had all day. (And the day got off to a horrible start.) -
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