Copyrighting the copyright.

[mix_hyenataur]

My roommate is a copyright lawyer, so I find it funny when people tell me I'm wrong for explaining copyright laws to them, for my roommate is telling me what to say and type, while quoting from the book

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[wereblood]

Furries are dumb and refuse to believe what is true.

I knew about this law, and always tell anyone whom gets a commission from me that it's there's when I'm done with it. Not only because that's how it should be, but because that's the freaken law.

Thank you
Joy

[airstrip]

I disagree with this fundamentally on price discrimination grounds. It is reasonable for an artist to use contracts to vary the cost of the work with the intent of the client to reproduce it. Hence works for "personal use" may not be copied at all by either party save on mutual agreement while works which have limited runs (say they are distributed only to new members of a relatively small organization) may cost somewhat more and works for wide distribution cost more still by virtue of their at least vaguely for-profit nature.

[wereblood]

That's true.

I guess my point comes from somewhere inside the smaller box. I have a good friend whom payed for a commission from someone. This person did the commission and then started selling copies of it after he had asked her not to. She refused to stop and said she would only stop if he paid a little over $100 for the copyright to the image. That was BS, and not right.

Your point is very correct, I just wasn't thinking outside the box.

Joy

[mix_hyenataur]

I hate artists like that, who use reasons as such that they've done such a good job, they now want to keep it (which has happened) or make more profit for it, thereby holding your art for ransom.

You paid for it outright, not to be ripped off. That person, the commishioner, is entitled to royalties.

[raptonx]

Though buying prints that are not commissioned work, just prints of work the artist did would be different.

Either way, I'd still put my signature on it :P.

[mix_hyenataur]

I've seen furries sell prints of commishions, which they shouldn't. Even posting the art online in your portfolio is illegal without the commishioner's approval

[raptonx]

Also a lot of commissioners don't really care about signatures or seeing it in other places.

[airstrip]

The only problem is that few of the contracts are more than verbal, so if you wanted the copyright, you'd have to take the person to court and demonstrate on the murkier base for verbal contract. In that case, it seems like you should be able to argue that "standard industry practices" do not include the transference of copyright to the commissioner.