Copyright ownership of designs made in Canva

We answer the most common questions about copyright ownership of designs you make on Canva as covered by our Content Licence Agreement.

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Who owns the copyright in a design made in Canva?

This depends on its composition. Generally speaking, if you’re the creator of an original design, you’re also its copyright holder. But if you used third-party content (e.g. stock Content from the Canva library) in your design, your ownership is subject to those third-party rights.

Canva gives you non-exclusive licences to use stock Content in your designs, (including photos, graphics, videos, fonts, and music) for a range of permitted uses. This includes the ability to sell certain types of designs that contain Content. Learn more about using Canva to create digital and physical products for sale.

The print-on-demand service I’m using to print my t-shirt designs requires me to confirm that I'm the copyright owner of my design. Can I do that?

Some third-party print services may require you to agree that you own copyright in any design you upload to their service. If that's the case, you can't use Canva content in those designs because you don't own the copyright in that content - you only have a licence to it.

If the print service only requires you to agree that you have the right to use your design that contains Canva content then the print service is OK to use, as long as you're complying with our licence terms (e.g. you aren't trying to sell Content on a standalone basis).

You're responsible for checking the terms of third-party websites as Canva is not able to advise you on these.

Do I own images I generated using AI?

Between you and Canva, to the extent permitted by law, you own the images you create with Magic Media, DALL·E, and Imagen by Google Cloud. However, whether that content benefits from copyright protection will depend on the laws of your local jurisdiction.

Currently, many jurisdictions (including the US) don't give copyright protection to AI-created works. This position applies to generative AI as a whole and isn't specific to Canva or Magic Studio.

This means you can still use your AI-created works, but you may be limited in your ability to stop other people from using or copying these works. We recommend seeking local legal advice if you have any questions about how this might impact your planned use.

Learn more about using Magic Media and other AI image-generation apps.