Who Holds Rights To Commissioned Designs?
March 3, 2008 by Mark
Filed under Leadership
On topic and timely…
If I pay for creative work, do I own it?
An entrepreneur wants to know who holds rights to commissioned designs: the buyer or the artist?
Arch, from Brooklyn, NY, recently asked Fortune Magazine’s Small Business folks this question;
“I recently purchased a design/drawing from an illustrator to use as a design for my T-shirt. Since I paid for the drawing and it was originally my idea, do I own all rights to the design? Can I even copyright it?”
FSB went to Ted Max, an attorney who has worked with fashion design houses such as Marc Jacobs and Louis Vuitton, …read more
