LICENSING AND LOGO USE
We thank everyone who has kindly asked permission to use the Tree of Life for their commercial and private purposes, and we appreciate the respect and understanding many of you have given. We rarely enter into licensing options with other companies, and we NEVER grant permission to use the Tree of Life for a company Logo, or to represent an organisation other than our own, since it is our own trademark and Logo for Keltic Designs.
We understand and appreciate the many requests we recieve to use Jen's Tree of Life as a Logo, or to represent a non-profit organisation. It is not easy for us to turn down the requests we receive from creative and positive businesses and non-profits. However, it would be impossible for us to protect our design from the public domain without our strict policy in place, and we have been consistent in actively restricting use of the design to Keltic Designs as our company symbol since it was created in 1990.
Thank you for helping us maintain the special protection we reserve for this design.
PUBLISHING & PERSONAL ONE-TIME USE
We are happy to provide publishing permission and contracts for non-commercial use, such as magazine illustration, book covers, web illustrations - but only with authorisation from us, and according to our terms of use. Credit must ALWAYS be given next to or near the image. Please contact info@kelticdesigns.com
PERSONAL TATTOOS
You do not need to request permission to use one of our designs as a personal tattoo. However, we love when we are sent pictures of your tattoos, and enjoy your appreciation when you let us know you have done one with Jen's work. It is a compliment, and we are honored by your decision to choose a positive, original piece of art by Jen Delyth.
TATTOO ARTISTS
Tattoo artists are welcome to use Jen Delyth designs as individual personal tattoos on their customers. Published works of any other kind should be credited with "Celtic Tree of Life by Jen Delyth ©1990" and Keltic Designs contacted. We do not give permission for commercial sale of images as tattoes, flash images, CD packages, internet downloads or any other commercial reproduction of Jen's original artwork without permission or licensing arrangments with Keltic Designs. Thanks a lot for helping protect artists and their work.
COPYRIGHT STATEMENT
Thanks to Stephen Walker - Celtic artist - for this following statement
Celtic designs have an ancient heritage. However, the work shown here is not an imitation of historical Celtic Art but new and original creations which are authentic continuations of that artistic heritage. Because Celtic Art often is used to make a link to the distant past it is often mistakenly thought that genuine designs can only be copied from antiquity.
This is unfortunate because artistic integrity demands that the designer create a new manifestation of the art, unique to present times. As a living art form, Celtic Art can only be
sustained by pursuing the goal of mastery of the creative process that ultimately results in new and imaginative work.
It is commonly and wrongly supposed that all Celtic designs are ancient and therefore free from copyright restrictions. The truth is that new, traditionally correct designs often look as if they could be very old, but they are none-the-less intellectual property of the artist. Use of copyright designs by anyone other than the artist requires permission in the case of personal use or a licensing agreement in the case of commercial use. All rights reserved.
