Intellectual Property Policy

Last updated: October 12, 2026

VibeShirt is operated by Torpid Enterprises Inc. We respect intellectual property rights and expect everyone who uses VibeShirt to do the same. This policy explains who owns what on VibeShirt, what you may and may not upload or sell, and how to report infringement. It is part of our Terms of Service.

1. Ownership of Your Designs

You keep ownership of the original artwork, text, and designs you create or upload to VibeShirt.
By using VibeShirt, you grant us a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to host, display, reproduce, print, and distribute your content. We use this license to operate the services, create product mockups, promote your products, and fulfill orders.
For content not used in an active order or listing, this license ends when you delete the content or close your account. We may keep copies as needed to complete existing orders, meet legal obligations, or resolve disputes.

2. VibeShirt's Intellectual Property

The VibeShirt name, logo, and related marks are trademarks of Torpid Enterprises Inc. Do not use them in a way that suggests sponsorship or endorsement without our written permission.
Our website, software, design tools, templates, fonts we license, product mockups, photography, and written content are protected by copyright and other laws.
Do not copy, scrape, reverse engineer, resell, or redistribute any part of the services except as the services expressly allow.

3. Your Responsibilities

By uploading, generating, or selling content on VibeShirt, you confirm that:

You own the content or have all licenses and permissions needed to use it on products for sale.
Your content does not infringe any copyright, trademark, right of publicity, privacy right, or other right of any third party.
You are solely responsible for your content and for any claims arising from it.

4. Prohibited Content

Unless you hold the necessary rights, do not upload, generate, or sell:

Copyrighted material: images, artwork, illustrations, photographs, lyrics, or text created by others
Trademarks: brand names, logos, slogans, or trade dress, including confusingly similar variations
Names and likenesses: names, photos, or realistic depictions of real people, including celebrities and public figures
Sports and collegiate marks: team, league, school, or organization names, logos, and mascots
Entertainment properties: characters, logos, and imagery from movies, TV, games, books, comics, or music
Fan art and derivative works: designs based on someone else's protected property, even if you drew them yourself

5. AI-Generated Designs

How our AI tools work

VibeShirt's design generator and design assistant are powered by artificial intelligence models from third-party providers. When you enter a prompt or upload a reference image, we send it to one of these providers to produce your results. Outputs are created automatically and are not reviewed by VibeShirt before they are shown to you.

No training on your content

VibeShirt does not itself use your prompts, uploads, or designs to train or fine-tune AI models. Generation is performed by third-party AI providers, which process your inputs and outputs under their own terms and policies. Depending on the provider, those terms may allow it to retain this content for a period of time (for example, for safety and abuse monitoring) and to use it to operate or improve its services. We do not control third-party providers' practices and make no guarantee about how they use data. Do not submit content you are not comfortable sharing with these providers. Our providers process this content to return your results, subject to their own terms and policies.

Ownership of AI outputs

As between you and VibeShirt, you own the designs you create with our AI tools, to the extent the law allows. We do not claim ownership of your outputs.
AI models can produce similar or identical results for different users. Your outputs are not exclusive to you, and other users may hold similar results they generated independently.
Copyright protection for AI-generated material is limited. In the United States, the Copyright Office generally will not register material generated by AI without sufficient human authorship. We do not guarantee that AI-assisted designs can be registered or enforced as your copyright.

Your responsibility for outputs

Review every output before you publish, sell, or order it. AI can unintentionally produce content that resembles existing artwork, characters, logos, trademarks, or real people.
Do not prompt our tools to recreate or imitate copyrighted characters, brands, logos, real people, or the distinctive style of a named living artist.
Only upload reference images you own or have permission to use, and do not upload photos of other people without their consent.
AI outputs are subject to the same intellectual property and prohibited-content rules as uploaded designs. They can be reported and removed through the process below.

Safety filters

Our tools and our providers use automated filters that may block certain prompts or outputs. These filters are imperfect: they may block legitimate requests or miss problematic content. They do not relieve you of responsibility for content you publish, sell, or order.

6. Reporting Copyright Infringement (DMCA)

We respond to notices of alleged copyright infringement under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (17 U.S.C. § 512). Our designated agent is registered with the U.S. Copyright Office (registration number DMCA-1082088). To file a takedown notice, send a written notice to our designated agent that includes:

A physical or electronic signature of the copyright owner or a person authorized to act on the owner's behalf.
Identification of the copyrighted work claimed to be infringed. If multiple works are covered, include a representative list.
Identification of the infringing material and information reasonably sufficient for us to locate it, such as the URL of each product, design, or storefront page.
Your name, mailing address, telephone number, and email address.
A statement that you have a good faith belief that the use is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.
A statement that the information in the notice is accurate and, under penalty of perjury, that you are the copyright owner or authorized to act on the owner's behalf.

When we receive a valid notice, we will remove or disable access to the material and notify the user who posted it. Notices that do not substantially include these elements may not be processed.

7. Counter-Notices

If your content was removed and you believe this was a mistake or misidentification, you may send a counter-notice to our designated agent. It must include:

Your physical or electronic signature.
Identification of the material that was removed and where it appeared before removal.
A statement under penalty of perjury that you have a good faith belief the material was removed or disabled as a result of mistake or misidentification.
Your name, address, and telephone number. Also include a statement that you consent to the jurisdiction of the federal district court for the judicial district where your address is located (or, if you are outside the United States, any judicial district in which VibeShirt may be found), and that you will accept service of process from the person who filed the original notice or that person's agent.

When we receive a valid counter-notice, we will forward it to the person who filed the original notice. If that person does not notify us within 10 business days that they have filed a court action seeking to restrain the alleged infringement, we may restore the material within 10 to 14 business days after we receive the counter-notice.

8. Trademark and Other IP Complaints

The DMCA covers copyright only. To report a trademark, right of publicity, or other intellectual property violation, email us with:

Your name and contact information, and your relationship to the rights owner
A description of the right you believe was violated. For trademarks, include the registration number and country if registered.
The URL of each product, design, or storefront page at issue
A statement that you have a good faith belief the use is not authorized, and that the information you provided is accurate

We review these reports case by case and may remove content, contact the seller, or request more information.

9. Repeat Infringers

In appropriate circumstances, we disable or terminate the accounts and storefronts of users who repeatedly infringe intellectual property rights. Depending on the situation, we may also:

Remove infringing designs and listings
Cancel unfulfilled orders for infringing products
Withhold earnings tied to infringing sales
Suspend selling privileges or close the account permanently

10. Misrepresentations

Under 17 U.S.C. § 512(f), anyone who knowingly and materially misrepresents that material is infringing, or that material was removed by mistake, may be liable for damages, including costs and attorneys' fees. We may also reject or ignore notices we believe are abusive or submitted in bad faith. If you are unsure whether content infringes your rights, consider consulting an attorney first.

11. Protecting Your Own Work

Keep records of your creative process, such as drafts, source files, and dates.
Consider registering important designs with the U.S. Copyright Office. Registration is generally required before you can sue for infringement in the U.S.
If you find your VibeShirt design copied elsewhere, you can file a DMCA notice with that site. If it is copied on VibeShirt, report it to us using the steps above.

12. Contact and Designated Agent

Send DMCA notices, counter-notices, and other intellectual property reports to:

VibeShirt DMCA Compliance
Torpid Enterprises Inc.
618 NW 21st Ave
Gainesville, FL 32609
Phone: (888) 218-4499
Email: info@vibeshirt.com

Please include "DMCA Notice," "DMCA Counter-Notice," or "IP Report" in your subject line so we can route it quickly.

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