Happy kitty -> ANGRY kitty. o.o

I'm thinking Bipolar..

I've never encountered this, but I'd be pretty erk'd.

I usually just wait a "reasonable" amount of time, then I post it up myself, I don't want to be a dick and detract from their hard work, and I don't want to double post stuff all over every ones watch list and stuff, but I kinda want to put the stuff I got in my gallery.

Kitty Cat to raging Tigress in under 10 seconds

No... a bitch is a female canine, she is obviously female... then again she is also a leopard so...

Valid point

even if I HAD the cash to commission ppl atm I'd avoid anyone who has conditions like that. "You pay for it but I still OWN the art and have full rights to it even tho it's YOUR character."

I understand using it in a portfolio and such but I'd be miffed if I paid for a commission of one of my own characters and someone goes and sells MY character to other people.

I don't even use artwork I do of other peoples characters for a price sheet unless I have permission first.

I think this is a great discussion topic, because it comes up in corporations frequently (gaming companies, etc.).

* Usually if you make the artwork, then sell it - it's the copyright of the artist who produced it (namely you). Even if someone buys your artwork, it's still your copyright.

* If it's artwork of someone else's design, and you're commissioned to produce it, it's certainly their character, but there should be implied permission to post the work as part of the artist's portfolio (I think the exceptions to this would be Pixar, Dreamworks, ILM, Disney - especially the "Mouse People") where they'd consider anything you'd produce while taking a paycheck as corporate intellectual property.


Fox has put this so forth brilliantly.

Exactly my meaning. The artist should have every right to post it because it IS an example of their work but I don't feel that they have the right to sell prints or use it for advertising for a third party. IE: Artist being commissioned to draw another person's Polar Bear Character then sells the same exact piece of artwork to CocaCola for Advertising.

I actually did some research into this after a friend of mine got upset about an artist doing this sort of thing. Totally agree that it's a dick move on the part of the artist, but they're legally in the right:
http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/3010412/

I think in the end (and I may just do this if I start accepting commissions) is to have a PDF form for the commissioner to fill out.

Perhaps something along these lines (Note - No lawyer involved below, but just an idea):

A form clearly stating that any character of the commissioner recreated or rendered by said artist being paid, shall grant permission to that artist(s) to post a copy of the commissioned art on the artist's website(s), into any professional portfolio use for promoting the artists skills and to indirectly promote the commissioner's artistic source material (i.e: Their Character or characters or themes).


This way a commissioner will know up front. It may loose come customers, then again, other's may totally agree with the idea too.

BTW... yes, I did make some punctuation errors. Oh well.

Ooo... GREAT Idea!!!

Now I don't know why I didn't just think of a "check" box, but nice idea!

For srs. x.x'

i've seen that happen often as well >.<

so i made it clear that once a request is done it's theirs now.

I was wondering about that. My self. I've met some who've gone Grrrrr. About it

been here myself. i uploaded anyways because i saw it as advertising them as well XD hell as long as it is MY ccharater/s involoved in the piece there is no real problem with it so long as it's not being mass distruted to copy, etc. :P

im scaired now

That's a new one on me. When I make art for people, I'm usually the one asking if I can post it on my site.

What's sad is I think I know some of these artists.

I know that this is messed up but I couldn't help but smile. I'd like to see some poor soul get this lecture just so I can put it on YouTube. Oh and I would probably have blurred out the peoples faces, I'm not that mean.. am I? Hehe, I probably would have scooted over too =3

Nice *highfive*

You capture the moment of rage face perfectly...

I haven't run into any artists like that, but I tend to ask first just in case. I always try to link to folks when I post commissions they've done for me.

Yeah, I wouldn't work with any artist that operated under those kinds of rules. I'm more than happy to link back to the artists, but, they're my characters and I want to share them with my friends. Kinda hard to do that without being able to post to FA.

yeah jeez D: i tell people they're totally free to repost, as long as i get credit and they don't like erase my sig or anything

I blacklisted an artist I commissioned last year over something like this... something about them wanting to sell prints of people's characters without permission to get extra profit..

NOT COOL. You were right to blacklist Tzol *nodnod*

So... If it's THEIR art, what did the customer pay for?