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How Copyright Applies to the Artist, the Buyer, the Employer/e, the Sold Artwork

Cover for the book, How Copyright Applies to the Artist, the Buyer, the Employer/e, the Sold Artwork

  • Print list price: $8.95
  • Download list price: $4.95
  • ISBN: 978-0-557-77048-9
  • Published: Nov 2010
  • Publisher: Lulu.com
  • Number of pages: 42
  • Book Detail: Black-and-white paperback with color cover, 8.5" x 11"
  • Number of downloadable files: 3
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THE PURPOSE:

Such a simple thing, a symbol, four numbers, and a name to have such huge ramifications on everyone connected to a particular piece of art, a product, a process, an idea. The physical manifestation of an idea, the marketing and treatment of that idea, the protection society requires for its creator all bound up in © YYYY First and Last Name.

The focus in How Copyright Applies is aimed at fiber artists and yet the explanations and examples are applicable to artists of any media, scientists, writers, engineers, laborers,

With so many myths and exceptions swirling about, I decided that I needed to understand exactly what was required to protect my work—and the most efficient way in which to go about it. It can get expensive! And I discovered it can get expensive in more ways than one.

There are also two sides to every coin: you as the employer and you as the employee. When you add in the different types of licensing and assigns...what are assigns??...It's just too confusing, until now.