Can a fashion brand sell the designs held in its PLM?

Only what it owns, and the PLM's terms come first. On our board 5 of 10 vendors leave the designs with the customer; Onbrand, for one, says customer content and all the intellectual property in it is the exclusive property of the customer.

Does CLO keep a right to my 3D garments?

You keep ownership, but CLO-SET's additional terms grant CLO a licence to aggregate and analyse your raw data and to make commercial use of the anonymised derived data, which they say includes trend analysis and new products.

Do fashion PLM vendors train AI on our designs?

9 of the 10 vendors we read say nothing either way. CLO's general terms say it and its service providers may use AI content to maintain its machine learning features and improve the services.

What happens to our designs when the PLM contract ends?

World Fashion Exchange says customer data is permanently deleted once the service ends, and Spoonflower that deleted content is no longer available. Onbrand says a customer can export its own content and should keep backups, so take the archive out before you cancel.

Is a fabric print protected by copyright?

In the US a two-dimensional print can be: the Supreme Court held in Star Athletica that the surface decorations on cheerleading uniforms were separable and eligible for copyright protection. In the UK the unregistered design right does not cover surface decoration, so a print relies on copyright instead.

Who pays for designs and fashion images used in AI?

Shutterstock says contributors receive a share of the contract value when customers license datasets, and Adobe pays Stock contributors whose content was considered for Firefly training a bonus. Alamy pays commission on licensed images, and Nyne and Troveo license company data.

Sell textile data to AI: what your PLM terms let you do

Fashion PLM, 3D garment and design marketplace terms, by vendor

Last updated 2026-10-28

Each row is a fashion PLM, 3D garment tool or design marketplace, linked to the documents read for it. An answer rests on that vendor's own sentence; a question its documents never answer is shown as not stated, and the silence is recorded.

5 of 10 fashion PLM, 3D garment and design marketplace vendors read up to 2026-10-28 keep aggregated or anonymised use of customer data.(Textile plm software data terms: every row, with its source)

Fashion PLM, 3D garment and design marketplace terms, by vendor
PLM or design platform	Who owns the designs	Pooled or anonymised use kept	Whether it trains AI on designs	What leaving does to your files	Source
Centric Software	not stated	reserved	not stated	not stated	Centric Software privacy policy
CLO Virtual Fashion	the business	reserved	may train	varies by document	CLO general terms of use
Creative Market	the business	not stated	not stated	not stated	Creative Market terms of use
Infor	not stated	not stated	not stated	not stated	Infor legal terms and policies
Lectra	not stated	reserved	not stated	on request	Lectra privacy policy
Onbrand PLM	the business	reserved	not stated	on request	Onbrand PLM terms of service
Shutterstock	the business	not stated	not stated	no export promised	Shutterstock contributor terms of service
Spoonflower	the business	not stated	not stated	no export promised	Spoonflower terms of service
Tukatech	not stated	not stated	not stated	not stated	Tukatech privacy policy
World Fashion Exchange (WFX)	not stated	reserved	not stated	no export promised	WFX privacy policy

Method and citation

Each vendor's own published terms were read through estate-fetch and stored whole (sha256 on every row). For every document, four questions were answered from the vendor's own words: who owns the business's data, vendor keeps aggregated or anonymised use, training AI on the business's data, export at exit. Every stated answer carries the sentence it rests on, checked against the stored text; 'not stated' means the document read does not address the question. A vendor with several documents reads 'varies' where they disagree. 10 vendors, 14 documents.

“Fashion PLM, 3D garment and design marketplace terms, by vendor”, Sell Textile Data to AI, https://selltextiledatatoai.com/ (updated 2026-10-28).

The process

Say what the archive holds, prints, tech packs, 3D garments or fit data, and which platforms it sits in.
We check those platforms' clauses on our board and the copyright and design-right rules a textile design falls under.
You get a written reply about your own archive and decide whether anything follows.

No fashion PLM, 3D garment tool or design marketplace paid to be on this board, and the site has no affiliate links. Each answer is our reading of a public document, not legal advice on your own agreements or rights. How the site is paid: if a brand, studio or mill licenses its design records to a buyer this site introduced, our fee is 12.5% of that deal, with a minimum, as its exclusive agent, or 10%, with a minimum, when its records join a bundle or the pool, agreed in writing first; a fee a buyer pays us is credited back to the seller.

The questions we get

Can a fashion brand sell the designs held in its PLM?: Only what it owns, and the PLM's terms come first. On our board 5 of 10 vendors leave the designs with the customer; Onbrand, for one, says customer content and all the intellectual property in it is the exclusive property of the customer.(Textile PLM software data terms)
Does CLO keep a right to my 3D garments?: You keep ownership, but CLO-SET's additional terms grant CLO a licence to aggregate and analyse your raw data and to make commercial use of the anonymised derived data, which they say includes trend analysis and new products.(Textile PLM software data terms)
Do fashion PLM vendors train AI on our designs?: 9 of the 10 vendors we read say nothing either way. CLO's general terms say it and its service providers may use AI content to maintain its machine learning features and improve the services.(Textile PLM software data terms)
What happens to our designs when the PLM contract ends?: World Fashion Exchange says customer data is permanently deleted once the service ends, and Spoonflower that deleted content is no longer available. Onbrand says a customer can export its own content and should keep backups, so take the archive out before you cancel.(Textile PLM software data terms)
Is a fabric print protected by copyright?: In the US a two-dimensional print can be: the Supreme Court held in Star Athletica that the surface decorations on cheerleading uniforms were separable and eligible for copyright protection. In the UK the unregistered design right does not cover surface decoration, so a print relies on copyright instead.(Star Athletica v. Varsity Brands)
Who pays for designs and fashion images used in AI?: Shutterstock says contributors receive a share of the contract value when customers license datasets, and Adobe pays Stock contributors whose content was considered for Firefly training a bonus. Alamy pays commission on licensed images, and Nyne and Troveo license company data.(Textile data buyers)

Go deeper

Each one cites where its numbers come from.

Fashion PLM software and who keeps your design data
Fashion PLM software read for one question: what happens to a brand's designs. CLO, Onbrand, Lectra, Centric and WFX on ownership, pooled data and leaving.
Fabric design copyright: what US law protects in a print
Fabric design copyright in the US: when a print on a useful article is protected, the Star Athletica separability test, and what the Copyright Office will register.
Unregistered design rights in the UK, for textile firms
Unregistered design rights in the UK as they apply to fashion and textiles: what is covered, why surface decoration is not, who owns it, and how long it lasts.
Selling textile designs to AI: who pays, and how
Selling textile designs for AI: which stock libraries pay contributors for dataset use, which marketplaces list prints, and which firms license company records.
Selling a clothing business? License the design archive too
Selling a clothing business, label or mill: why its print archive and tech packs can be licensed apart from the sale, and the rights and platform terms to check first.

Sources

This site's own datasets, every figure quoted from its source and dated:

Who takes textile designs and fashion data, and how: 4 of the 12 organisations whose pages we read pay or license the designers and companies that hold the work, read 28 October 2026.
Who owns a textile design, right by right: 1 of the 8 legal texts read in the US and GB give a design made in employment to the employer, newest read 28 October 2026.
Textile plm software data terms: 5 of 10 textile plm software vendors whose terms we read reserve the right to use their customers' data in aggregated or anonymised form, read 28 October 2026.

No.	Source	Published by
[1]	CLO Virtual Fashion, CLO Virtual Fashion	legal.clo-set.com
[2]	CLO Virtual Fashion, CLO Virtual Fashion	legal.clo-set.com
[3]	Centric Software, Privacy Policy \| Centric Software	centricsoftware.com
[4]	Lectra, How Kubix Link, Lectra’s cloud-based PLM, protects your data \| Lectra	lectra.com
[5]	Lectra, Privacy policy \| Lectra	lectra.com
[6]	Infor, Legal Terms & Policies \| Infor	infor.com
[7]	PTC (FlexPLM), PTC Legal Agreements \| PTC	ptc.com
[8]	Onbrand PLM, Terms of Service \| Onbrand PLM	onbrandplm.com

The question this page is here to answer

Who takes or licenses textile designs, fashion images and product records for AI, in what form, and through which door?

5 of the 10 textile and fashion platforms we read leave the designs with the customer. Tell us where your archive lives and we will write back about it.

Answered by Sell Textile Data to AI, which reads every enquiry this page takes.

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