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yeah, selling a painting is different from granting a copyright for a painting. that's the point.
by pasquinelli 8y ago
yeah, selling a painting is different from granting a copyright for a painting. that's the point.
- thaumasiotes 8y agoThis was commissioned work. It was commissioned under existing legal standards specifying that the copyright went to the person buying the work. Had it been commissioned under legal standards specifying that in the absence of a written contract, copyright stayed with the artist, there would have been a written contract assigning copyright to Chrysalis Records. It's not like Terry Ellis found an existing painting and bought it. Nobody got ripped off here, and everyone got exactly what they should have expected to get.
- chrischen 8y agoThe artist entered into the agreement knowing full well what it was going to be used for.
- rmk 8y agoThere was no (written) agreement. One of the things that made it difficult for the artist to get a cut.