Artist Cases

Your share. 40% of the net margin on every case sold, or $12 AUD, whichever is higher. Net margin is what the customer paid for the case, minus the cost of making it, delivery and payment fees. Our advertising is never taken out of your share.

Your art. You keep the copyright and your moral rights. We get a non-exclusive licence to print your design on phone cases and show it in our shop and posts. We never change your art beyond fitting it to the case, and never use it to train AI tools.

Fitting your art. Phones differ in shape, size, edges and camera cut-outs, so we may crop, scale, move or change the aspect ratio of your art to fit each case, mock-up, listing or ad. On some models a design may look slightly cropped or scaled, part of it can sit under the camera cut-out or round the edge, and printed colours can vary a little from a screen. We never redraw it. Your approved proof sets the fit, and other models follow it.

Getting paid. A statement and payout by the 10th of each month, by PayPal or bank transfer. Refunded cases come off the next statement; misprints we replace never do.

Leaving. Either of us can stop with 30 days' notice. Cases are made to order, so there's no stock to clear.

After you leave. We stop selling your cases once your notice ends, and we won't make anything new with your art. Posts, Reels, stories, emails, blog posts, ads and other content already published before then can stay up, and we can choose whether to keep or remove them. Orders already placed are still made, and you're paid for them.

Changes to the programme. Artist Cases is new and will keep growing, so we may update, add to, pause or end any part of the programme or these terms as we see fit, including the channels, launch pack, phone models, prices and how we run things. We'll tell you by email at least 30 days before any change that lowers your share or your rights, and it never touches royalties you've already earned. If a change doesn't suit you, you can leave on the usual notice.

Your promise about your art. Every design is your own original, hand-made work (no generative AI). It doesn't copy anyone else's art, characters, logos or trade marks, any fonts, brushes or textures in it are licensed for commercial print, and you're free to license it to us. You agree that fitting your art to a case or an ad, as described above, doesn't infringe your moral rights.

Young artists welcome. There's no minimum age. If you're under 18, a parent or guardian applies with you, agrees to these terms with you and looks after your payments. We copy them in on every message, and we only ever show your artist name and your art: never your school or where you live, and your photo only if they say yes.

Who we work with. We have the final say on who joins the programme and which designs we sell, and we don't always give a reason. Applying, or being chosen once, doesn't guarantee a place or a design going on sale.

Conduct. We're a fun, family-friendly shop and many of our customers are young, so we work with artists who are kind in public too. Treat our customers, team and other artists with respect and stay within the law. We choose which designs we sell and can say no to any of them.

Suspending or ending. We can take your cases off sale and pause promotion (a suspension), or end your place in the programme straight away without the usual notice, if we reasonably believe a design copies someone else's work or breaks anyone's rights, we get a rights complaint or a platform takedown, you break these terms, or something you do or say could seriously harm our customers, our community or our reputation. Where we can, we'll tell you why and give you a chance to respond. If it's cleared up, we can bring your cases back. If we end things for conduct, we can also take down content that features you.

Your share if that happens. Royalties you've already earned are still paid, except on a design that turns out to be copied or to break someone's rights: royalties on that design aren't payable, any already paid can come off future statements, and we can hold that design's royalties while a claim is looked into.

If something goes wrong. If your promise about your art turns out to be untrue, you cover the reasonable costs that come from it (claims, refunds, takedowns and legal costs), and we can take them from royalties owed to you. We can't promise any number of sales, and as far as the law allows, our total liability to you is limited to the royalties owed to you.

Tax and payments. You look after your own tax. Australian artists give us an ABN or a signed statement by a supplier, otherwise the law requires us to withhold tax from payments. We only pay accounts in your name, or your parent or guardian's if you're under 18.

Keeping things private. Our prices, costs, statements, suppliers and unreleased designs stay between us. Customer details stay with us and are never shared, and we look after every customer conversation.

The legal bits. We own the product photos, mock-ups, listings and videos we make (your art inside them stays yours). We can move the programme to a future Scribble Snacks business, such as a company, on the same terms; you can't pass your place to someone else without our OK. If one term can't be enforced, the rest still stands, and not acting on something straight away doesn't mean we've given up the right to. These terms are governed by the law of Western Australia.

Do I need to be in Australia? No. We're in Perth and work with artists anywhere.

Can I send art I've already made? Yes, if it's your own original work and big enough to print sharp.

What files do you need? Digital art works best: a high-res PNG (300 dpi at full size) or a vector file. Hand-drawn art is welcome too, as a sharp, high-res scan. No template needed: we fit it to each phone for you. If you'd like to place it yourself, we'll send a template per model.

Can I sign my case? Yes, please do. A small signature in any name you like: your name, initials or shop name. Send it as its own little file and we place it where no camera cut-out covers it.

What will my case be called? You name the design. We list it under that name with your credit, like "Sleepy Dumpling Phone Case - Your Name x Scribble Snacks".

Which phones? Recent iPhones first, including iPhone 18, then Samsung Galaxy.