Adds Tipping Feature to Checkout to Further Support Global Artist Community
CHICAGO—(April 23, 2014) — Threadless, the global design community, today introduced new artist-friendly terms that grant artists all rights to their work through a non-exclusive contract, and a royalty compensation model that gives 20 percent of profits to the artists who created each purchased design.
Meant to enhance the support, exposure and growth of artists worldwide, these advancements create opportunity and further success by allowing artists to share their work across all available platforms and increasing financial potential. A long-time champion of the arts, Threadless sees the changes as increasingly beneficial to independent artists, ensuring the company stays true to their core values and mission.
“It is very important to us that our artists, who are the very reason that we exist, have both control over and fair compensation for their original work,” said Jake Nickell, CEO of Threadless. “With the new terms and royalty-based compensation model, we are making an active effort to ensure that our artists not only retain the rights to their intellectual property, but also receive a share of the profits that the sale of their designs generate. Threadless strives to be the best place in the world for artists to get exposure and monetize their work, and we believe that these new structures make Threadless a more supportive place for artists to submit and sell their work.”
In addition to the new royalty compensation model, customers will also now be able to digitally tip the artists whose work they are purchasing on Threadless.com during checkout. This new tipping functionality further underscores Threadless’ commitment to their artist community in ensuring that artists are fairly compensated for their work while also enabling consumers to play an active role in showing their appreciation for their favorite artists.
“Threadless is an interactive community that thrives on support as much from their peers as they do from us,” said Nickell. “The new tipping feature gives everyone a chance to lend a hand, further connecting our community and values by helping artists we all admire, respect and believe in.”
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