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seabamboo

Junior Member
Florida

I have an eco friendly clothing company I just started and will have a line of tshirts which I need artwork for. All the artwork are my creations but I am not an artist so I will need someone to tweek it and make it look good. Who owns the artwork?
 


FlyingRon

FlyingRon

Senior Member
seabamboo said:
Florida

I have an eco friendly clothing company I just started and will have a line of tshirts which I need artwork for. All the artwork are my creations but I am not an artist so I will need someone to tweek it and make it look good. Who owns the artwork?
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It would depend on just what you did. Your own artwork is obviously owned by you. The tweaked artwork is potentially a derivative work which would give the artist the right to the change. The best bet is that you get an explicit agreement with the artist that you are paying them to do the tweaks as a work-for-hire in which you retain all rights to it.
 
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