Terms

Casey K HQ Member Design Use & Licensing Terms

As an ACTIVE Casey K HQ Member, you receive a limited license to use eligible Casey K HQ and Casey K Creations, Inc. designs for your own personal painting and for teaching in-person paint parties, subject to the following terms.

Use of Casey K Designs for In-Person Classes

Active Casey K HQ Members may teach Casey K HQ/Casey K Creations, Inc. designs at their own in-person paint parties.

The Casey K design should remain recognizable as the original Casey K design. Members may simplify a design for the needs or skill level of their students. For example, you may leave out certain background elements, decorative details, lettering, greenery, or other minor elements to make a project easier to teach.

However, members may not redesign, substantially alter, adapt, or create a new version of a Casey K HQ/Casey K Creations, Inc. design or character for use as their own class design.

This includes, but is not limited to:

• Changing or redrawing one of our characters into a different character, pose, composition, or design.
• Combining substantial elements from Casey K designs to create a new class design.
• Taking a Casey K design and substantially changing its composition, features, or identifying elements and presenting the resulting artwork as a new or original class design.
• Using Casey K stencils, tracers, patterns, practice pages, reference artwork, tutorials, or other materials as the basis for creating a redesigned version for teaching, licensing, distribution, or resale.
• Sharing redesigned or substantially altered versions of Casey K designs as class projects, patterns, stencils, tracers, reference images, or instructional materials.

Changing colors, surface size, background color, wording, or leaving out minor elements does not by itself constitute redesigning a Casey K design.

Personal Use

We absolutely encourage creativity in your own personal painting!

Members may change, personalize, embellish, simplify, or otherwise put their own creative spin on a Casey K design when creating artwork for their own personal use.

The distinction is that a personally modified Casey K design may not then be used as a newly redesigned project for teaching, licensing, distribution, resale, or other commercial purposes.

Sharing in Casey K HQ Communities

We love seeing what our members create and encourage members to share their paintings in our Casey K HQ community!

Personal interpretations and changes made to paintings for your own enjoyment may be shared as personal artwork. However, substantially redesigned versions of Casey K HQ/Casey K Creations, Inc. designs should not be posted or promoted in our member communities as new class designs, original designs, or projects intended to be taught.

This helps us protect the integrity of the original artwork and prevents confusion regarding which designs are official Casey K designs and which uses are permitted under the membership license.

Selling Finished Paintings

Active Casey K HQ Members may sell individual, original, hand-painted finished pieces created using Casey K HQ/Casey K Creations, Inc. designs.

These individual hand-painted originals may be sold in person or offered for sale on the member’s personal Facebook page.

This permission applies only to the actual, one-of-a-kind hand-painted piece created by the member. It does not include commercial or mass-produced sales, prints, reproductions, digital copies, transfers, sublimation products, merchandise, or other reproduced products featuring Casey K HQ/Casey K Creations, Inc. designs.

No prints or reproductions of artwork featuring our designs may be sold.

Membership does not grant permission to reproduce our artwork on merchandise or products for resale.

Kits, Stencils, Patterns & Digital Materials

Casey K HQ/Casey K Creations, Inc. designs, stencils, tracers, patterns, practice pages, reference artwork, digital files, tutorials, instructional materials, or substantially similar reproductions may not be sold, shared, copied, distributed, transferred, or provided to others except as expressly permitted by Casey K Creations, Inc.

Active Casey K HQ Members may create and sell physical painting kits featuring eligible Casey K designs for their own in-person classes or in-person sales.

These kits may include the member’s the written step-by-step notes or instructions. They may not include, copy, distribute, link to, provide access to, or reproduce a Casey K HQ tutorial, video, written tutorial, downloadable material, or other membership content.

Kits featuring Casey K HQ/Casey K Creations, Inc. designs may not be offered or sold online.

Casey K stencils, tracers, patterns, practice pages, digital files, reference materials, tutorials, or membership downloads may not be sold or distributed as standalone products.

Membership materials are provided for the individual member’s use and teaching privileges and may not be shared with another instructor, business, employee, independent contractor, or third party unless written permission has been provided by Casey K Creations, Inc.

Online Teaching

Casey K HQ/Casey K Creations, Inc. designs may not be taught through Facebook Lives, Zoom classes, prerecorded classes, YouTube, membership groups, online courses, digital workshops, or any other online or virtual teaching format without express written permission from Casey K Creations, Inc.

Active Casey K HQ Members are licensed to teach eligible Casey K designs in their own in-person paint parties only.

Posting or sharing instructional videos, demonstrations, step-by-step teaching content, or other online instruction featuring Casey K HQ/Casey K Creations, Inc. designs is not permitted without written permission.

Membership Must Remain Active

The license to teach, sell permitted kits, and otherwise use Casey K HQ/Casey K Creations, Inc. designs for the business purposes described above is available only while the member maintains an ACTIVE and current Casey K HQ Membership.

Upon cancellation, expiration, suspension, or termination of membership, these business-use permissions end.

Cancellation of membership does not affect a member’s ability to keep and enjoy artwork they previously painted for their own personal use.

Geographic Restrictions

Local HQ Members located in or near New Castle, Pennsylvania may not hold in-person classes using Casey K HQ/Casey K Creations, Inc. designs within 45 miles of the Casey K Creations studio without written consent.

HQ Members operating more than one brick-and-mortar business location must receive written approval from Casey K Creations, Inc. before teaching Casey K HQ/Casey K Creations, Inc. designs at multiple locations. Any additional licensing requirements or fees will be agreed upon in writing.

Painting franchises or multi-location painting businesses must contact Casey K HQ/Casey K Creations, Inc. directly to discuss appropriate licensing.

Protecting Our Designs & Our Members

These guidelines are not intended to limit your creativity. They allow us to provide our members with designs they can confidently teach while also protecting the artwork, characters, educational materials, and creative work developed by Casey K HQ and Casey K Creations, Inc.

Because these permissions are extended equally to our members, Casey K Creations, Inc. reserves the right to restrict or revoke permission to use Casey K HQ/Casey K Creations, Inc. designs when these terms are not followed.

If you are ever unsure whether a particular use, modification, sale, class, or kit is permitted, please contact us at info@CaseyKHQ.com before using the design.

Multiple Instructors, Employees & Business Locations

A Casey K HQ Membership and its accompanying teaching license are issued to the individual active member and are not automatically extended to employees, additional instructors, independent contractors, business partners, or other individuals working for or with the member.

If an active Casey K HQ Member owns or operates a business with multiple employees or instructors who will be teaching Casey K HQ/Casey K Creations, Inc. designs at the same physical business location, please contact Casey K HQ at info@CaseyKHQ.com for approval and any applicable licensing requirements.

A single Casey K HQ Membership does not grant unlimited teaching rights to multiple instructors or employees.

HQ Members operating more than one brick-and-mortar business location must receive written approval from Casey K Creations, Inc. before Casey K designs may be taught at additional locations. Any additional licensing requirements or fees will be agreed upon in writing.

Painting franchises, multi-location businesses, or businesses with multiple instructors using Casey K designs should contact Casey K HQ/Casey K Creations, Inc. directly to discuss the appropriate licensing arrangement.

Membership Cancellations

You may cancel your Casey K HQ Membership at any time through your account.

Log into your Casey K HQ Library and go to your Dashboard. Click Memberships and follow the instructions to cancel your membership.

Please note that upon cancellation, you will no longer have access to the painting tutorials, membership library, or other members-only content included with your membership.

For members using Casey K designs for business purposes, your license to teach Casey K designs, sell permitted in-person kits, and exercise the other business-use permissions described in these terms is valid only while you maintain an ACTIVE and current Casey K HQ Membership.

If you are unable to cancel through your account, please email info@CaseyKHQ.com.

Please include CANCEL and Casey K HQ Membership in the subject line, along with your payment source if known.