Anyone familiar with pictorial copyright laws?

[Brazoo]

Once you buy the original from whomever holds the copyright to that image and as long as no one in the painting is someone else's copyright character you have the right to license it out. It is yours you own it.

Let's say you bought a Illustration from me once you buy the original, it is yours not mine. you now have ownership of the Illustration. You paid me for it.....

Not to be argumentative, but to my knowledge the exact opposite is true.

The original painting would be your property - not the copyright.

They need to be thought of as two different things. You can purchase a painting, and you can purchase the copyright to a painting.


Uhhh....


Here, this makes it pretty clear. Check out section 202 of the copyright laws:

"§ 202. Ownership of copyright as distinct from ownership of material object

Ownership of a copyright, or of any of the exclusive rights under a copyright, is distinct from ownership of any material object in which the work is embodied. Transfer of ownership of any material object, including the copy or phonorecord in which the work is first fixed, does not of itself convey any rights in the copyrighted work embodied in the object; nor, in the absence of an agreement, does transfer of ownership of a copyright or of any exclusive rights under a copyright convey property rights in any material object."

U.S. Copyright Office - Copyright Law: Chapter 2

[Brazoo]

Your not a downer at all Brazoo, your a voice of reason.

It is better to be safe than sorry.

Cheers Jim! I appreciate that.

Practically speaking I totally agree that if it's under the radar then meh - it's like custom Meogs and a bunch of other things we do - we infringe on copyright law all the time usually without even knowing it.

[kingdom warrior]

Not to be argumentative, but to my knowledge the exact opposite is true.

The original painting would be your property - not the copyright.

They need to be thought of as two different things. You can purchase a painting, and you can purchase the copyright to a painting.


Uhhh....


Here, this makes it pretty clear. Check out section 202 of the copyright laws:

"§ 202. Ownership of copyright as distinct from ownership of material object

Ownership of a copyright, or of any of the exclusive rights under a copyright, is distinct from ownership of any material object in which the work is embodied. Transfer of ownership of any material object, including the copy or phonorecord in which the work is first fixed, does not of itself convey any rights in the copyrighted work embodied in the object; nor, in the absence of an agreement, does transfer of ownership of a copyright or of any exclusive rights under a copyright convey property rights in any material object."

U.S. Copyright Office - Copyright Law: Chapter 2

Oooooops......Goodness my head is never on straight .......thanks for pointing it out to me