If we’ve designed the book cover for you, and are designing your promotional merchandise, then we’ll be using royalty-free stock images which are paid for in advance but only allow for the imagery to be used on up to 500,000 books and on promotional material. If your book sales go beyond 500,000 or you plan on selling the merchandise, then you’d need to pay for an extended license for each of the images used within your artwork. Similarly, if you are providing us with your own artwork, we’d need to see your extended licenses for whichever images are used within the final artwork. Assuming all the licenses are in place, then you are free to sell the merchandise on a global basis with no legal repercussions.

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