Post #80670 by pshikli on Sat, Mar 13, 2004 4:27 PM

On 2004-03-10 20:03, Mrs. B wrote:

For the prize money, we would be buying the design.

We would have no problem stipulating that the data rights transfer to us after our purchase of the first tiki chess set from you. Our intent is to get into the habit of buying tikis from the winners. We don't carve tikis ourselves.

But if we pay for the designs, we don't want a competitor to be able to use it or sell it against us.

Will you actually be purchasing the design for $200.00 top pay? Or, does the artist hold the artistic concept until a contract is agreed upon? If no contract is signed with the artist, who, according to your company, owns the rights to the design?
Thanks for your time.

[ Edited by: Mrs. B on 2004-03-10 20:12 ]