Need your input please! Legal issues you'd like to hear about…
Hi everyone!
I was talking with attorney Cheryl Hodgson the other day and we were discussing the types of topics that would be of interest to artists and especially those relevant to art licensing. (I am pretty good at stating the obvious, aren’t I?)
Anyway, Cheryl asked me to “Poll the crowd” and see what you want to learn about. We have the questions submitted for her call in July and some of my ideas… but PLEASE give me more feedback for her, okay?
I want her to talk about the finer points of copyrights, registration and trademarks. Also standard licensing contracts.
What do you want to know about?
I tried having a cool input form but apparently it isn’t working – please add your questions to the comments or email me directly. Thanks!
Here’s to your creative success! – Tara
PS – if you don’t have a copy of the “Ask” call Cheryl did in July, CLICK HERE and register to claim your free.
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Does an artist need permission to use celebrity or icon’s likeness to include in a one time print ? I’m pretty sure if multiple prints were made and sold, there would be some type of permission required for the sales, but I saw numerous artist’s booths at ArtExpo and their works included either celebrity likeness or icon likenesses ( such as the Batman Logo, the 7 up logo, cartoon characters ). I asked the artist if they needed the copyright owner’s permission to include that work as part of their own, and they told me, no because it was only one original pc of work, not one of several editions or prints being sold.
Is that true ?
Hi Tara, it seems your form is not working, so I’ll post my question here.
I heard it would be beneficial as a licensing artist to register copyright of your artwork in your company’s name, in case you have an LLC or Inc. What is the proper way to do it? Do you register the copyright in the artist’s name first, then, create a copyright transfer agreement between artist and LLC or Inc, and finally record the document with the Copyright office?
Or, first you create the document of transfer, and second, go register the artwork in the conpany’s name? I would love to learn how that goes! Thanks Tara!
To follow up Monica’s question, once you have protection on your artwork: What are some ways that a novice first licensing their work might be taken advantage of? How do we recognize these ways?