MadDog31 opened this issue on Jan 21, 2003 ยท 23 posts
lsstrout posted Wed, 22 January 2003 at 12:29 PM
All this talk of copywriting images reminds me of a time when I was at one of those events where you have booths of people selling stuff - a home show or some such. One booth was selling Bev Doolittle full size prints and then some framed smaller versions of the full-size prints. Turns out they had bought a bunch of books with her art in it, sliced out the pictures and framed them. I suspect that is illegal (not to mention bad for the books). They were easily making a huge profit on this while the artist was only getting the book sale royalties. I hate theft, but the hard reality is that you can't count on catching everyone. I strongly encourage any of you who are getting very serious about selling your art to also check with a copywright attorney. I have some friends who have done this and they say it has helped them out tremendously. Lin