Patent ID: 7328173

Claim:
An automated printing system for producing image-based products of a common product type from a user account, comprising: a server computer configured to receive: a first gallery of one or more copyright protected digital images and a first price for a first image-based product incorporating a copyright protected image in the first gallery, wherein a first user owns copyrights of the one or more copyright protected digital images in the first gallery; a second gallery of one or more copyright protected digital images and a second price for a second image-based product incorporating a copyright protected image in the second gallery, wherein the first user owns copyrights of the one or more copyright protected digital images in the second gallery, wherein the first image-based product and the second image-based product belong to a common product type, and wherein the first price is different from the second price; a first order of the first image-based product incorporating the copyright protected image in the first gallery, wherein the first order is received from a second user; and a second order of the second image-based product incorporating the copyright protected image in the second gallery, wherein the second order is received from a third user; a computer processor configured to process a copyright protected digital image in the first gallery in response to the first order and to calculate payment to the first user based on the first price, and to process a copyright protected digital image in the second gallery in response to the second order and to calculate payment to the first user based on the second price; and a digital printer coupled to the computer processor and configured to produce the first image-based product or the second image-based product.