Since launching this site, we’ve gotten a tremendous amount of feedback from Jasmine’s fans. Lots of questions about appropriate/allowable use of her work and we’ve also had a handful of people experience some issues with the download process. We’ve made a few updates to the process since the first few days of launch and took some notes based on customer feedback so we could create a help center for y’all. Hopefully following FAQs will help clear things up!
Order/Download Issues
This happens when you aren’t logged into your account and you try to access the purchase confirmation and receipt on the website. Make sure you are logged into your account on the site, then click “My Account”. From there, you’ll see all your purchase receipts (yes, even if they are free downloads they will be called “purchase receipts”). You’ll also see a full list of your available downloads below that.
If you click on the link in the email again, now that you’re logged in, you should be able to access your download and view your purchase receipt.
If you use the login form, on the page that shows the error, it will NOT redirect you to your receipt. You’ll need to either click on the link in your email or click “My Account” to access your purchase receipt and downloads.
Firstly, we did update the download process so now instead of filling out the email form for each product, you can add to cart as you would with normal products, so you’ll only have to enter your info once when you check out. Your downloads will be immediately available on your purchase confirmation page so that you don’t have to rely on the emailed receipts.
The only way to access your download from your receipt email after your receipt link expires is to go through the download process again on the site. Download links expire after 72 hours. This is to prevent people from sharing these links on other sites for other people to download indefinitely, thus totally blowing up our bandwidth usage.
If you want to be able to access your downloads indefinitely, you can do so by creating an account on Patreon and connecting it with downloads.strangeling.com. Creating a Patreon account is FREE. You don’t have to support any creators – not even Jasmine – in order to create an account. Once you’ve created a Patreon account, make sure you are logged into that account and then click “Login With Patreon” from the the “My Account” menu on this site.
Keep in mind that any downloads you acquired BEFORE creating your account will NOT be in your account. You will need to have downloaded these prior to creating your account. But the downloads are free, so you can always just download them again to add them to your account.
Making a contribution is separate from any of the downloads. You’ll need to select the individual images you’d like to download in addition to whatever contribution you’d like to make.
Well, these downloads are free, after all. We aren’t intentionally trying to make this cumbersome (and hopefully the recent change to make the download process more like a normal add-to-cart situation vs filling out a form for each download will make things less annoying), but we do have to consider our bandwidth usage in this project.
We may consider releasing a zip file of all the images for a small fee just to cover the bandwidth for downloading such a large file. It would be 11-12GB so could take some time to download and may not be a great situation for people who are trying to download over slower internet connections. We’ll need to see how the project goes in its first month to see if we are receiving enough voluntary support through direct contributions and new Patreon patrons to support offering a free or paid download of the full catalog or not.
We’ve never done anything like this before and we aren’t sure what to expect. We definitely don’t want to bankrupt Jasmine on bandwidth costs by doing more than she can afford to support. We appreciate your understanding.
Copyright, Usage, and Availability
No. ONLY what has been specifically released on this website as Creative Commons 0 license is actually public domain. Jasmine retains the copyright to all other images of all other paintings, with the exception of any images where the copyright has been transferred to the licensee (e.g. Disney). In which case those licensees hold those copyrights.
When in question about a particular work – just ask. We’ll be happy to answer. You can also browse the complete list of public domain works.
No. The Strangeling logo and name are still copywritten by the artist. You may not brand prints or products that you make using the public domain images as Strangeling or use the Strangeling logo. You may refer to your products as “featuring art by Jasmine Becket-Griffith”, but you cannot pose as the artist or advertise yourself as affiliated with Strangeling, Jasmine Becekt-Griffith or imply that you are “official” or “officially licensed” in any way.
If you’d like to become an officially licensed manufacturer or distributor of Strangeling/Jasmine Becket-Griffith art and merch, please contact Jasmine’s licensing agent Tate Licensing.
If it’s not on this site, then it’s not Public Domain. At this point, the project is limited to the 625 images on the site. Jasmine does plan to release other paintings into the public domain, but she has no particular plans on specific images or release dates for them.
If anything being currently licensed has been placed in the public domain, you no longer need to remit payment to Jasmine for its use (unless you’d like to). We’ll be developing more Patreon tiers for commercial licensing that will make the licensing process more streamlined for any works that are NOT in the public domain (of which there are still around 1,000 or so and Jasmine will be creating more art that is NOT in the public domain in the future). So please stay tuned for those announcements.
For new merchandise, you’re welcome to use anything from the public domain library to create your own merchandise and sell it without having to remit any royalties to Jasmine. If you want to license images that are NOT in the pubic domain, you’ll need to wait until we get the commercial licensing tiers on Patreon set up (sometime in the next few months). We’ve got a lot of restructuring to do as we move forward with Jasmine’s new business model and appreciate your patience through the process.
There are already an enormous number of bootleggers/counterfeiters that produce and sell merchandise with Jasmine’s images on it. Despite our better efforts, there’s not much we can do about it. Even big corporations have trouble enforcing their copyright despite having teams of lawyers dedicated to doing so. Just go on any marketplace type platform and you’ll find thousands of people selling “fan art” that infringes on copyright, fly-by-night companies that make cheap products with unlicensed artist’s images on them, etc. Eventually, these might get taken down if enough DMCA takedown notices get sent, but then again – they might not. The glut of bootlegged merchandise hasn’t kept huge corporations from making a profit off their own intellectual property, and if people end up with a crummy product from a bootlegger, they likely won’t be a repeat customer. Do you lose SOME sales? Probably. But even the bootleg products are still driving brand awareness for the artist/company.
Putting high resolution images in the public domain gives anyone from an individual, small artisan/craft business, or mega-corporation, the ability to create high quality products without the need to try to pretend that it’s not Jasmine’s work or claim it as their own (even though they could still do that, it just wouldn’t have any particular advantage to doing so).
This also drives a distinction between public domain works and images that are still copywritten. It makes the reproduction of works that retain their copyright more valuable than reproduction of the public domain works. It also forces people to create more interesting and complex products with the public domain images if they want to stand out above and beyond everyone else out there making mugs and t-shirts in their third-party print-on-demand shops.
Of course originals and the hand embellished limited editions are still limited to the number that was produced and their value should not be impacted in any way. Any customization that Jasmine herself has done to any product, through hand-embellishing or autographing it, should still retain its value as these are things that cannot be legitimately reproduced by a third party.
If you want to try your hand at creating products with Jasmine’s public domain work – go for it! Try to think of something interesting and unique to make what you’re creating stand out from whatever else is already out there. And please share what you’ve made with us! We’d love to see it.
Would this work for every artist? No. Probably not. We definitely don’t recommend this path unless you are sure you can make it worth your while as an artist.