Can you sell products made from Design Bundles downloads? The tiers decide
On Design Bundles the answer is not in a single license - it is in your subscription tier when you downloaded. The same file is personal-use-only on one tier and POD-allowed on another. This page covers the current tiers; purchases made before April 5, 2021 fall under the old license linked from their license page, and the terms assigned at download govern each file.
TL;DR: Under the current tiers: Hobbyist downloads are personal use only - no selling at all, not even physical products. Unlimited tier downloads carry the Premium License plus a POD License: sell unlimited physical products, upload as-is to named POD platforms, lifetime coverage on what you downloaded while subscribed. New digital designs require transformative use - recoloring alone is not enough. Raw file redistribution is always prohibited. Your tier and download date decide which rules a file lives under.
What does the Hobbyist tier allow?
Personal projects and direct gifts to family and friends. The license explicitly does not cover: selling physical or digital end products, commercial branding, sending items to third-party printers or POD services, and even donations where your brand receives recognition. If you downloaded on Hobbyist, nothing from that download goes in your shop. The license is assigned at download, so upgrading later does not change the terms on files you already have.
What does the Unlimited tier allow?
The Premium License plus POD License, per the current license page: - Physical products: create and sell unlimited finished goods made by you. - POD and third-party manufacturing: upload or send designs as-is to POD platforms - the license names Merch by Amazon, Redbubble, Printify, and Zazzle - or outside manufacturers. - New digital designs: allowed under the transformative standard (below). - Fonts and branding: flattened text designs, logos, packaging; web font use up to 100,000 page views per month. Coverage is lifetime for what you downloaded while the tier was active, single-user, non-transferable.
What counts as transformative?
The license's own standard: purchased elements must be edited, rearranged, overlapped, and combined with other distinct graphics or text so the original asset is only a component of a new composition that stands on its own. Explicitly not enough: simple recoloring, or minimal text added to an as-is graphic. Print-ready intricate artwork that cannot be sufficiently transformed cannot become a new digital product at all - though the included POD license still covers physical use of it as-is. Font glyphs cannot be converted into standalone alphabet sets; fonts must be flattened into completed word or phrase designs.
What is always prohibited?
Reselling or redistributing the raw design or font files, extracting individual elements to share, or passing raw files to third parties for their own use. Assets also cannot be used in pornographic, fraudulent, illegal, harassing, or defamatory ways. The license grants non-exclusive usage rights - copyright ownership stays with the original creator and Design Bundles Ltd.
Which license covers older purchases?
Anything purchased before April 5, 2021 is licensed under the old license, which the license page links separately. And within the current structure, the terms that govern any file are the ones assigned to it at download - your tier on that date, under the license version then in effect.
Frequently asked questions
Can I sell things made from Design Bundles files on Etsy?
On the Unlimited tier, yes: unlimited physical products, as-is POD uploads, and new digital designs that meet the transformative standard. On the Hobbyist tier, no - that license is personal use only, and selling anything from those downloads is outside it.
Does upgrading my tier re-license my old downloads?
The license assigns terms at download, so upgrading does not change the terms on files already downloaded. Whether downloading the same file again under a new tier grants the new terms is not stated in the license text - ask Design Bundles before relying on it.
Can I upload Design Bundles files to Printify as-is?
On the Unlimited tier, yes - the POD License included in that tier covers as-is uploads to POD platforms, and the license names Printify explicitly. On Hobbyist, no POD use at all.
Do I keep my rights if I cancel?
The license states lifetime coverage for assets downloaded while your tier was active, under the terms assigned at download. Cancellation stops new downloads, not the rights on what you already have.
Which license applies to my old purchases?
Purchases before April 5, 2021 are covered by the old license linked from the Design Bundles license page. Files downloaded under the current tiers carry the terms assigned at download.