Legalities of Selling Art
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- sine0
do something original instead.
"Brainwash your face!"
- Mr. Brainwash
- mantrakid0
yeah and to be clear, im not talking about prints of famous art or even photographs, but like original oil / acrylic paintings with my shit on top of the original giving it new context..
- this new context means it's a new piece and you can claim your intellectual property rights
doesnotexist
- this new context means it's a new piece and you can claim your intellectual property rights
- mantrakid0
mega thanks to all for their insight and communication. interesting subject.
- theredmasque0
I had a guy recently trace my work exactly and emboss it onto metal foil, frame it, and call it his art (no credit to me anywhere and he certainly didn't ask permission for use either). And he was trying to sell the work. I filed DMCAs or whatever their called on all the photos of it hosted online and they all got yanked (after I asked him to take down first). The guy emailed me back and called me "ignorant". lol.
So I don't think you should alter somebody's art and call it your own. I have also heard of some law about defacement of artworks (if it's the original you are altering) but I'm not 100 percnet sure on that one. I'll have to see if I can find where I read that.
The only way to be safe is if you are either doing a parody of the work or if you are deconstructing / adding to the work in such a way that's it's no longer recognizable as the other person's work, I think. For example, ifyou cut up a photograph and rearranged it and collaged it so that the original image was no longer recognizable.
- zoozoo0
hiphop.
- 23kon0
If it's a one-off original work of art then yeah i think you can alter it then sell it.
If it's a print / reproduction of an original work that you don't own the rights to the original artwork for then nah I dont think you can sell it as your own.