Royalty Free Christmas Clip Art
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This virtual gallery offers the very best royalty free Christmas clip art images classified into Angels, Animations, Assorted, Borders, Elves, Lights, Ornaments, Pictures, Presents, Religious, Santas, Stockings, Trees, Victorian, Vintage, Wallpapers and, Wreaths. You can also find lots of free Stories and coloring Printables.

You'll find all you need to make your Christmas season sparkle. Images from the sources we recommend are available in a variety of versions (JPG, GIF, PNG, EPS, etc.)

Get exactly what you want to suit your specific application. Before you download anything though, please read our disclaimer, as well as the usage policy of any of the recommended image sources you decide to use.

Advertising Policy

This Royalty Free Christmas Clip Art site accepts advertising and other forms of compensation. Such compensation does not influence the information that we provide. We always give our honest findings and opinions.

Listings in the "Ads by Google" sections are not selected by us. They are automatically provided by Google.com, which sponsors ads on our site. Because the Google ads relate directly to the page content, they're actually helpful to visitors with the added options they provide.

The comments about Google also apply to Kontera, which connects ads related to the text on the page. Mouseover a double-underlined word and you'll see for yourself. The connection with the content is not quite as tight as it is with Google, but the ads can still be helpful.

Please do support our sponsors and follow our recommendations. It takes time and effort to deliver original site content, free to you. By supporting our sponsors, you make it all possible.

Advertisers We Allow

Below are the only companies whose products we recommend. Apart from the ads served up by Google and Kontera, they are the only sponsors we allow on our royalty free Christmas clip art site:

• VistaPrint -- VistaPrint is the complete online stationery store. For years they have offered 250 free business cards to introduce people to their products. But it doesn't stop at business cards. On special occasions, such as Christmas, VistaPrint makes other incredible free offers, like a custom printed Christmas calendar. It's the perfect partner for all the royalty free Christmas clip art we offer. At entirely no cost (except for a nominal shipping charge) you create your own custom Christmas calendar with images you upload. Click on the calendar image to the right to learn more! There's no risk and you'll be very pleasantly surprised at what you find.
• Graphics Factory -- Clip Art Incorporated does business as Graphics Factory. In January 1997, GraphicsFactory.com pioneered the online searchable clip art market and today offers one of the Web's largest and most affordable subscription services for original royalty-free vector clip art images, graphics, and animations in the World.
• iCLIPART -- iCLIPART.com contains over 7.8-million royalty-free clipart images, photos, web graphics, animations, fonts and sounds. Every subscription includes professional-grade imagery in formats compatible with virtually all Macintosh and Windows compatible software. Their superb content is used by professionals and non-professionals alike.
• 123RF Stock Photo -- 123RF.com is a one-stop royalty-free photo library offering stock photos at affordable prices. For a single subscription fee, you can get ongoing access to a wealth of high-resolution images. Alternatively, you may purchase credits and download images, all for a very low rate.
• iStockPhoto -- iStockphoto is one of web's premier sources for royalty-free stock images, media and design elements. Artists, designers and photographers from all over the world use iStockPhoto to create, work and learn. Although the company started with just a few photos in 2000, it now offers vector illustrations, videos, music and sound effects, Flash and, coming soon, logos.

The following sections of this page provide reliable definitions of royalty free, copyright and public domain. Please read them carefully to make sure that when you download images, you are doing it legally.

Meaning Of Royalty Free

When people see Royalty Free Christmas Clip Art, some think it means free. Two of our recommended sources, Graphics Factory and iCLIPART, can provide images at pennies each, but they're not free.

Here's an excerpt from the Wikipedia entry on royalty free...

Royalty-free is a term employed in negotiating the right to use creative content, such as photographs, video, or music. The term royalty-free means that once the content is licensed under a set of guidelines, the licensee is normally free to use it in perpetuity without paying additional royalty charges.

The concept of royalty-free comes from copyright, a statute that allows authors and publishers of works to be the sole arbiter of the exploitation of that work, and to set fees associated with that work. The economic incentives afforded by copyright give artists one way to make a living through their creative works.

Royalty-free does not mean a user is free to take and use whatever content they find available to them. It only refers to a specific licensing contract between two entities. The licensor, usually the content creator, always retains all copyright to the content, including the ability to distribute it, or allow redistribution.

So there you have it. When we speak of royalty free Christmas clip art, it means images for which you pay a one-time licensing fee to use the image, which is still owned by the entity that licensed it.

Meaning Of Copyright

When you download images from our recommended suppliers, Graphics Factory and iCLIPART, the owner of the work, the copyright holder remains the owner. Here's an excerpt from the Wikipedia entry on copyright...

Copyright is a set of exclusive rights granted to the author or creator of an original work, including the right to copy, distribute and adapt the work. Copyright does not protect ideas, only their expression or fixation. In most jurisdictions copyright arises upon fixation and does not need to be registered.

Copyright owners have the exclusive statutory right to exercise control over copying and other exploitation of the works for a specific period of time, after which the work is said to enter the public domain.

Uses which are covered under limitations and exceptions to copyright, such as fair use, do not require permission from the copyright owner. All other uses require permission and copyright owners can license or permanently transfer or assign their exclusive rights to others.

Works that are not protected by copyright may be in the public domain.

Meaning Of Public Domain

Works are in the public domain if there is no known owner. Here's an excerpt from the Wikipedia entry on the meaning of public domain...

Works are in the public domain if they are not covered by intellectual property rights at all, if the intellectual property rights have expired, and/or if the intellectual property rights are forfeited. Examples include the English language, the formulae of Newtonian physics, as well as the works of Shakespeare and the patents over powered flight.

In a general context public domain may refer to ideas, information and works that are "publicly available", but in the context of intellectual property law, which includes copyright, patents and trademarks, public domain refers to works, ideas, and information which are intangible to private ownership and/or which are available for use by members of the public.

Warning! It's very tempting to grab images for free that are supposedly in the public domain. But it's extremely risky. See for yourself. Google the term "images settlement demand letters" and see what turns up in the Search Engine results.

It's much easier and cheaper to get your royalty free Christmas clip art images for a minimal fee from reliable sources (such as Graphics Factory and iCLIPART) and know that you're on safe legal ground.

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