Pop on over to Adam’s TShirtChat.com and read his write-up about a new Print on Demand company.

UPDATE 1: For the record, I posted at TShirtChat.com my strong feelings against the stated Terms/Agreement a user would agree to upon signing up with Yerzies. Therefor, in full disclosure, I’m saying I have not yet signed up for an account with Yerzies because of my position on, what I feel, are unnecessarily restrictive and adversarial terms.

I have posted the following email to the Yerzies company via their website contact form. In my usual fashion I write-from-the-hip and I don’t pull punches:

If you’d be so kind, please direct this email to the appropriate user policy department.

Awfully archaic and adversarial licensing agreement you have… don’t you think?

“You hereby grant to Yerzies an irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, fully-paid and royalty free license (with right to sublicense) to create derivative works, reproduce, distribute and publicly display the Content that you post on our website in any and all media (now known or later developed) throughout the world.”

I’d hope you would consider adopting a far less adversarial and industry-standard user agreement soon?

I know of no artist let alone heavy-hitter in the POD-seller-field that would either agree to such terms or actually upload quality content knowing these conditions exist.

I can think of more favorable ways to get one’s feet off the ground as a POD than to have a license agreement that hangs the threat of a company walking off with, without compensation, user-created material?

I’d like to respectfully request a response as I believe there are concerns that exist and, if those concerns can be overcome, would directly influence some who are active and valuable members of the POD-selling community.

A response that could be freely shared with my peers would be very, very welcome.

You have an interesting foundation being formed and it’s an exciting time in the POD industry, I’m sure you’d agree? When a company, such as yours, enters the scene there can be much more excitement generated if there is positive and hopeful news to share.

I thank you for your time in reading and hope you’ll consider my request for clarification and possible re-articulation of your current, existing terms of service.

-Daniel Mowry
Print-on-Demand and affiliate seller.

UPDATE 2: Responses received – please read comments.