So want to talk about Amazon's content policies on much by Amundson.
So when you get accepted for much by Amundson the obvious and natural thing you want to do is go straight
here to create and upload your first design because you're excited about selling T-shirts on Amazon.
That's exactly what I did.
However I would advise you just spend five minutes before you do that and click on this link here to
the resources section.
And then I would advise you to read best practices and content policy and then quickly go through the
best practices here.
Even though I am virtually mentioning every one of these in other videos.
But more importantly I talk about the content policy and the copyright and trademark issues because
that is so important.
So much by Amazon.
And also if you go said Efik who's intellectual property there's some other interesting information
there.
But it's by no means the full story.
Let's go back to best practices and I'll just quickly go through these.
Tell you what's really important.
And then we'll go to content policy.
So if you read this this will tell you about the file.
You have to create.
I'll be going for that.
Another video is simply this bit as well these last three sections are really important about the type
of designs that do well.
Firstly they tell you what.
What doesn't do well designs that look contained within a rectangular block.
So basically put everything on a transparent background in the P.A. that you upload now don't print
with a halo or a hard edge around the design elements with a transparency less than 20 percent are likely
to get lost when printing and avoid simple white shirts.
So really useful information because what does 12 designs on a dog show.
If you do a design it yellow design you can put it on a choice of four different dark almost black T-shirt
colors and they can look really good.
They do much better than black designs on white T-shirts distressed designs go goes well I will go for
all of these and when I do the design of the course and I'll give you a piece the document the Photoshop
document that you can use in -- and I'll show you how to make a distressed design simple identifiable
silhouettes to well bright high contrast colors.
And remember this large silhouette high contrast then it will look good in the thumbnail and people
will generally just see that from Amazon and then click for it see the shirt.
So it's all good information here.
Even more down in the bosome it says inside jokes and SASO designs that look cool.
So non-facts but true fans will recognize it.
So if you do something that people are passionate about and have a kind of inside joke it's that they
will understand but their friends won't understand.
But they still think it will be a cool T-shirts to look at then that's a great idea.
So great ideas here.
I really would recommend you read best practices no content policy really important just these first
two.
The copyright and the trademark.
I mean it just basically says don't infringe on copyright and don't infringe on trademark.
That's not very useful.
When you find out what I'm about to tell you about what Amazon does with what they think is copyright
infringement we might as well go through the rest of this because there are some interesting things
in here although mostly it's pretty obvious that don't break the law.
-- content is out.
You know child exploitation profanity you don't use curse words.
Promotion of Heytesbury intolerance.
I just don't get that this is all pretty obvious.
I know a big human tragedy so so many.
There was a hurricane in Texas.
Somebody did a Texas state design with the word strong on it.
And they got their design design rejected.
So Amazon are extremely strict with this content policy and there's more.
It gets even more ridiculous than that believe me.
So read all this here.
It's pretty obvious.
But you wouldn't believe how strict they are in this policy.
Look at this one down here 5.1 shipping and fulfillment items that make promises about the speed of
shipping or fulfillment.
For example information related to fulfillment and shipping including shipping times or manufacturing
country of origin.
Well why would you want to say any of that.
Well I I wouldn't that's all.
But I didn't design that was Chinese or Asian.
It was an element of Chinese or Asian arts.
And I said that in the product description guess what the design was rejected because they said I fell
foul of number five on their content policy said their computer.
Their robot scanned what I said about the T-shirt and because I mentioned China it's sourced I was talking
about the manufacturing country of origin.
Completely wrong.
But the design is rejected.
If I get 10 more like that I get my account suspended.
I could get my count that much.
But Amazon is a great site business but it is not a business.
This is because of the way they apply their content policy.
So look at this for example.
Here are just a small selection of copyrighted phrases and words that you cannot use in a T-shirt and
you cannot use in the text you use to upload with the teacher.
So awesome that you can't use those words.
Programa you can't use that word swag.
You can't use that word awesome boyfriend.
You can't use this word.
You can't say this man in a sentence.
So if he said this man in the T-shirt is looking very sad.
That would be rejected.
And your account could be bad.
So I think you're beginning to understand as straight as Amazon is on that content policy specifically
in the area of copyright and trademarks.
So don't take it seriously don't take it personally.
This is because Amazon just doesn't want to get sued.
So it's their business.
If one of your T-shirts gets noticed by a copyright troll a turning in the US and he decides to sue
Amazon.
It's a headache for Amazon.
It's not really a headache for you.
OK you might lose your account but quite frankly it's a side business.
It's not a business.
You can base a business around print on the demand in the States and have a Shopify site when you sell
your own T-shirts and sell them on all the other prints of the bomb platforms and then just have to
merge by Amazon as a small percentage of your business.
But you cannot have much by Amazon as 100 percent of your business because you're just building a business
on extremely shaky foundations if you do that.
However there are lots of tools you can use to make sure you don't fall foul of these extremely strict
content policy.
By the way Amazon applies.
So if you go too much research and consider budget formats I've shown you this on other videos but you
go straight search here and then you can just enter a bit of text in all of these.
Remember this and sure enough that is the irony the print ink has copyrighted the phrase this man for
use on shirts T-shirts.
That's all you need to know.
And all these other things.
So at some point if it's if it's copyrighted T-shirts then you can't use it and you can search these
three sites for copyrights.
Similar in the U.S. P-T of the United States Patent and Trademark Office they have a trademark search
here and it's called the trade electronic search system.
Yes.
And you can just basic words search and programa were done this one submit queery And yes you have to
look for the actual word.
There is it's canceled it was foiled registered in in 88 and then cancelled in 94 the programmer abandoned.
Well it would seem that that one so caber I wouldn't use it for it was you.
But anyway that's what you've got to do.
For every word that appears in the text with the T-shirt.
So when I did this video I did the video about uploading the T-shirt at much top Amazon Dot com.
And this is what I use.
These are the words I used with the T-shirt I showed that.
So in this case I should individually search all of these words on the sites I showed you.
I haven't done that.
Of course I don't have time for that.
So there's more more of those you can use.
We've only been speaking about words.
What about images.
Well a lot of you will be looking for royalty free images so you'll be looking for illustrations my.
And that's See you're looking for an illustration of a boot's.
So something like this would be good for a T-shirt.
Something simple.
So let's have a look at that you'll see.
This is CCPs zero creative commons and free for commercial use with no actual boosting required.
I don't believe that for a second.
You will still need to check to see if it's not trademarked.
And to do that you can go to Tina uploads and you'll see it's shared on picks up by public domain vector's
good free photos.
And there is that pair of boots with a pair of legs Common's Wikimedia So that's looking quite good.
It's basically shed on on loads of sites sites with public domain images so it would seem as though
the image is OK.
Also you can look at Google dot com slash images again and then you upload the image and look at images
and look visually similar images and that's all you got.
And the only sites that come up with is the Wikipedia site.
So again that looks OK.
Well that's in Japanese and they go to it's public domain.
They are right to use this word for any purpose without conditions.
So that's absolutely fine you can use that illustration on a T-shirt.
So you have to go through a lot of rigmarole.
Same with phones even say if you want to use a phone.
Look for free scripts phones.
And I find that the cell phones very good because you can look at them and if you see that's green dollar
mark then you see this fund is free for commercial use because if you use a phone that somebody has
created it isn't free.
They say it's on a T-shirt.
They get in contact with them and then you're going to be in trouble.
But the most likely reason that you will have designs rejected is if you put a copyrighted expression
it could be a normal English language which it doesn't have to be the words of a film title or a soul
or a TV program or a copyrighted work of fiction.
It can be any English word or phrase that's been copyright.
If you put it in these text areas that when you're uploading your match by design then you will have
the design rejected by a computer.
And if those rejections mount up you could lose your account.
So as I say again there are some people who say you can understand these these copyright and trademark
rules and you'd be all right.
Personally I disagree.
I think it's too difficult to get right for the average person and therefore I consider mass violence
to be a side business and not something you should base your entire business on.
With that being said I think it's a great side bezels and I'll see you in another video.