Post #442959 by bigbrotiki on Fri, Mar 27, 2009 11:47 AM

Why not just make them to order, here on TC? Figure out a (for today's economy: low!) price, and see how many orders you get.

This thing was done as a COMMERCIAL job for some brochure, that artist got paid for it, and thousands of other commercial illustrations like it have been thrown away. It's not the friggin' Madonna, it's old forgotten commercial art. It is only "art" to some because WE think so. NOBODY has ever come forward and asked for money for the hundreds of orphaned images I used in my books --and I would take umbrage at that if they would, because it was my work that re-imbued them with a context and thus with a value that did not exist previously.

There where a few images that I wanted to use that were cost-prohibitive, and this issue is one of my pet peeves: Greedy rights holders wrongly believing they are sitting on some imagined "gold mine", while all they are doing is keeping beautiful art from being rediscovered and re-entering pop culture --upon which they MAYBE would start seeing a financial return. Now nobody is gonna see them. It's like the suing mania, it is restrictive, not creative.

This of course does not pertain to the current crop of artists in the Tiki field.