Post #131303 by ToonToonz on Thu, Dec 16, 2004 3:24 AM

And added concern for an artist who knows that someone is ripping them off - making unauthorized copies of their art- and does nothing about it, is that the next person that does it and the artist DOES take them to court, this person can reference how the artist did nothing to the previous copyright violator and probably win.

This is why Kleenex and Xerox and now I see Ti-Vo are alwasy sending lawyer letters out to people that "mis-use" their trademarked names; such as "She made a Xerox of that".

When someone buys art, unless it is specifically stated in a contract, the person buying the art does not have the right to make copies of it. They do have the right to own the art, display it, sell it and even destroy it (yikes!) - but they can´t make copies of it.

These are some good sites to visit for more copyright background info:
http://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ1.html
http://www.whatiscopyright.org/
http://www.templetons.com/brad/copymyths.html
http://www.eff.org/IP/DMCA/