Dear artists...
No, I’m not going to link back to your page. I edited out your ugly signature too. I paid for the art. It is mine.
Don’t worry, this does not mean I take credit for drawing it. When people ask if I drew it, I say “Nope.” When people ask who did, I say, “Sorry, I don’t remember.”
Just because I bought your art does not mean our profiles have to be linked forever. It’s the same if I buy an apple from the grocer. I don’t have to keep the sticker on it or tell people where it came from. I’m not a walking advertisement for your shop.
If you want credit so badly, then I should get a cut of your future profits for my part in the advertising.
I know I’m probably going to get the wrath of whiny, entitled artists for this, but I don’t care. I won’t be making a shrine around their art dedicated to them. I paid for a service, and now we should go our our separate ways!
alright so there’s a lot of fucked up parts in this post but?? right off the bat?? “I edited out your ugly signature too”??? I’m sorry but that’s really stupid?
if you bought a physical, painted-on-canvas drawing, would you still go through the trouble of trying to edit out the signature there too? Because literally the only difference between that scenario and this one is that the canvas can be physically held and displayed, where the digital painting stays in a digital venue.
Do not be a dick to artists. Fucking don’t edit out their signatures, credit them where they are due. Don’t be like the asshole OP. If you commission an artist, respect them enough to credit them.
Dear people who think like OP;
Please do not ever fucking commission me. My signature is an A, but I don’t care if an artist’s signature is a giant fucking watermark half as big as the piece. If you cut out their signature, you cut out their effort. Do you have to make a little URL tag that links back to my page or DA or tumblr or whatever? No. Would it be nice? Yeah. Is it a good habit to do anyway? Yeah.
But unless you’re paying me USD and we’ve made it part of the agreement that my signature will NOT be on the art- leave the fucking signature on the art. You purchased art that has the signature. Once you alter it, you’re violating our purchase agreement. The artist produced that art for your agreed upon purchase price with the understanding that what they were sending- signature fucking included- would remain on the piece.
If they knew that you were going to use their art independently without any sort of remaining credit like that, then the price very well may have been different or they might not have agreed to do the art at all.
Damn, OP Edgy McEdgerson is really proud of being a dickhead. No one’s saying you’re linked forever, and no, “I didn’t draw it and don’t remember who did” doesn’t absolve you, you chucklefuck.
SIGNAL BOOOST
fuck this OP.signal boost for the people in case they run into them.
in the end OP is a dick but he’s right that he doesn’t have to link back or credit you if he commissioned it. Everyone’s overreacting.
http://artlawjournal.com/visual-art-ownership/ Except OP actually DOES have to link back and credit any artist they commission if said artist demands it.
Under the Visual Artist Rights Act of 1990, artists have the right to attribution for any work that they sell, which OP would absolutely be infringing upon.
Artists also retain a whole mess of other rights to their work unless explicitly stated otherwise in a TOS or contract, so maybe don’t go spreading this bullshit that people are just “overreacting” here, okay?
It’s okay to not HAVE to link to the original I think (it’s just the nice thing to do), and if you honestly can’t remember who the artist is, that shouldn’t be a problem. But deliberately erasing signatures and intentionally separating the artist from their work is a big fuck you, so fuck you whoever does that. (Also the apple comparison is awful, the grocer isn’t custom making the apple to your very request, and food is short-lived)
OK Doctrine of First Sale is a thing, I can sell my art print if I want, the creator can’t stop me. Digital brings a whole other can of beans though because putting it online is publishing.
Coming from a publishing background unless you SPECIFICALLY bought a license that says so or the entire copyright to a piece of work, you can’t modify or republish it with any legality. Stock photo’s are a thing for a reason, art isn’t free (as in beer) and without explicit licensing is heavily controlled by the owner. In publishing this kind of minutia goes down to FONTS, you think that copy of Helvetica on your computer means you can make a PDF of your story and sell it online? (PDF’s embed the full font data IN the file) Well you are WRONG, you need to head over to fonts.com and pick up the Helvetica ebook package, convienantly priced at $1664.00 or pray you slip under the radar (you probably will). The main reason that Photoshop and other professional grade tools are as expensive as they are is the license that comes with the font’s and whatnot in them
You paid for your Senior Pictures, they are of you, the artist still holds the copyright and if you make copies they can and will sue you for copyright infringement and win handily. You paid for the prints of the picture not the content of the picture. If you comission art you may only own a container file not the contents of it.
