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FA's Policy on uploading content...what I'll be ignoring.
17 years ago
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If I commission an artist to draw me something, that art becomes MINE! Yes, I will give full credit to the artist..most definately yes...since its THEIR skill that brought it into fruition...but if I paid for it or it was simply given to me as a gift, it by law becomes MY possession, and as such I have full right to post it without getting permission from the artist.
If an artist wants to complain that I'm posting something that is MINE...they should in return refund whatever I paid for that art if they want me to remove it.
If an artist wants to complain that I'm posting something that is MINE...they should in return refund whatever I paid for that art if they want me to remove it.
Property is property.
Whats next? You buy a painting and can't hang it on your wall for people to see?
Check with your commissionees ;)
You need to express this as a work for hire. Even if it was done for you as a personal gift, there isn't a law that says otherwise. This may vary a bit from country to country however, the artist would more likely have the law of his/her presiding country on his/her side.
Your argument is the equivalent of purchasing any good quite honestly. Just because...let's say you bought a book, it doesn't give you copyrights to re-post it. Even the idea itself isn't copyright. Copyright protects tangible form to be exact. So it doesn't even qualify you to be a co-author.
Bit of Epic repost:
Who Can Claim Copyright?
Copyright protection subsists from the time the work is created in fixed form. The copyright in the work of authorship immediately becomes the property of the author who created the work. Only the author or those deriving their rights through the author can rightfully claim copyright.
In the case of works made for hire, the employer and not the employee is considered to be the author. Section 101 of the copyright law defines a “work made for hire” as:
work prepared by an employee within the scope of his or her employment; or
work specially ordered or commissioned for use as:
a contribution to a collective work
a part of a motion picture or other audiovisual work
a translation
a supplementary work
a compilation
an instructional text
a test
answer material for a test
an atlas
if the parties expressly agree in a written instrument signed by them that the work shall be considered a work made for hire.
The authors of a joint work are co-owners of the copyright in the work, unless there is an agreement to the contrary.
Copyright in each separate contribution to a periodical or other collective work is distinct from copyright in the collective work as a whole and vests initially with the author of the contribution.
Im giving the artists every credit for producing that art. But im going to show off what I paid for, what I was given.
Fortunately, most artists wont mind a commissioner showing off the art they were commissioned for..hell...free advertising at the very least. And while I know this is FA covering their asses...as long as Im not taking advantage of an artist or claiming their work as mine, I'm going to show off what I have.
The By You/For You Policy
1) By You:
You may post any Submission provided that the submission is an original work created by you. Joint works and collaborations must give proper credit to all contributing sources.
2) For You:
Fur Affinity allows users to post Submissions created for them provided they have the original artist's permission to repost said work. Credit must be attributed to the original artist with citation that the work was not created by the submitter.
You can still post it. o-o
More publicity.
If I commissioned a symphony from a composer, I would want to have that symphony performed in my own concert hall with my own orchestra, not just maintained in manuscript, never to be heard.
The same feelings apply for any one on any posting board that has any thing to say to the contrary... :)
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