Copyright vs. Ownership 🤔 Artist Rights!
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- Опубликовано: 9 сен 2024
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See my previous videos for tutorials on how to do what’s shown in the video!
This is how I clean out my brush cleaning tank in which I use Gamsol to wash my oil paint brushes at the end of the day (before soap & water). A few times a year it needs a good clean out as sludge builds up below the coils. That sludge goes into a separate jar with which I make new paint. So technically I don’t waste any paint sludge or solvent from my jar. (Again see old videos for more!)
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I guess it’s copyright week as I’m still responding to questions from my previous video but so many artists aren’t taught the difference between copyright & ownership.
In most countries Once you make an original work of art you own the copyright. So a collector can buy that work from you but they can’t start selling it on tshirts or using it on a website to promote their company and you are fully able to use the image to sell prints or license the image to a brand.
Of course there are reasons you might not do this, and you can come to an agreement with the buyer. But that’s courtesy not a legal obligation.
But what’s stopping some rich collector from being like “no, you didn’t actually paint this. I did.” And then using your art however they like? It would be their word against yours unless the copyright was legally registered somewhere with proof. An automatic copyright is great but it doesn’t seem official enough if legal trouble arose.
That’s why it’s important to take progress pics & keep sketches & documentation when you create the work as proof that you made it. I try to always hold back behind the scenes progress pics from all social media etc for this reason :)
@@dorisroseartgood idea!!
Sharing the artwork you buy on social media is arguably a public display in excess of the purchaser’s rights (normally the permitted display is only of the physical copy purchased, not a digital reproduction). You’d have to rely on something like an implied license or waiver. Also not sure what you meant by saying that once you sell your art, you can no longer exhibit or display it without the owner’s permission - that runs contrary to your first point about sale of a copy not divesting or transferring your copyright. Otherwise, solid rundown. 👍🏻
My meaning was to say the artist can no longer display it physically without the owners permission (meaning access an original physical painting for an exhibition for example). I should have specified that!
@@dorisroseart Ah, gotcha! Yeah, once you part with the physical chattel, the owner probably wouldn’t appreciate you breaking into their home to repossess it for an art show. Gotta bake that into the contract for sale. 😉
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I would love to know more about what you're doing in the video here. It seems like such a good idea to recycle the pigment and gunk from the bottom of your mineral spirits, but I'd be worried that the pigment to binder ratios would be all broken down and that would threaten the structural integrity of any painting that used it. How do you overcome that issue? Do you add more oil into the gunk? How do you work out how much to add, etc? I'd love to know more about your process.