Thank you for sharing this in such a straightforward manner. It's annoying when content creators frontload information with a lot of irrelevant preamble and junk. 🎉
Wow, your story about the school yearbook sounds so random, it's wild! Glad you got compensation. Did this effect your sales in any way, do some of those Australian students or their families buy from you, do you know? 🌈🐕
Since I was never publicly credited for my artwork being on the cover, I am fairly sure I did not get any sales from it. They would have no way to know who the artist was. But I was at least financially compensated for their mistake.
Thank you for this great, informative video! It leads me to additional questions…Do you get a mass copyright for groups of your art pieces before presenting them anywhere (even licensing companies)? At Art fairs, do you have a certificate of authenticity attached to the back of your original paintings, as well as your prints (I’m trying to understand if that is a recommended practice)?
In the USA, artwork is automatically protected by copyright law as soon as it's created so you don't need to register your work with the copyright office or add a copyright notice to it to receive protection. I'm not sure how copyright protection works for other countries. At art fairs, I do not provide certificates of authenticity for my original paintings and definitely not my prints. That said, some artists do give certificates of authenticity for originals, but I've never heard of anyone doing it for prints. I establish authenticity for my customers by hand signing my original paintings. They also get a receipt when they purchase. I feel that those two things are enough to prove that the artwork was painted by me and authentic. A certificate of authenticity is basically a fancy sales receipt to prove that the buyer purchased an authentic painting by a particular artist. Honestly, I don't have time at art fairs to mess with all that, it just creates extra busy work for me. Some customers are really impressed by certificates of authenticity, though. But they're really just a receipt that you make yourself, printing it out on your computer. I suppose if you wanted to do that you could take a bunch of them with you and fill them out every time you sell an original an art fair. So it is an option...
You are such a hard worker and so creative. I can't ship my own work, and I'm not sure how to find a company interested in my artwork. I have so many questions 😅 I draw fan art, and I'm wondering if this will be an issue if I want to sell prints?
Fan art is difficult because you are actually infringing upon the copyright of the companies who created those characters, so you can't sell it anywhere online like Etsy because they'll just take it down and ban your account. But there is one place that you can legally sell some copyrighted fan art. And that is Red Bubble. There are certain characters that you can create under their agreements with the companies for copyright protection. They make all of the artwork for you and ship it out. You just upload your images. That said, artists don't make very much on red bubble.
I answered your first question in the video I think, the first several minutes tell you all about what art licensing is and there are a list of companies that do licensing in the description of the video. As for copyright, there has to be some level of trust between you and the company for you to give your artwork to them. Technically, you are signing a contract with them, allowing them to use your copyrighted artwork so they have the right to put it on products. Usually for a limited timeframe or a certain number of product run. In the USA, as soon as you make a particular artwork, it is automatically covered by copyright protection. You own the copyright to everything you create. You don't need to do anything else to have it covered by copyright protection. Just create it, and you own the copyright. I'm not sure how it works in other countries.
I’m not 100% sure, but I think it was downloaded off of Saatchi because the image they used was one that I had uploaded to that website, I did an entire video talking about how they require you to upload large images and they are completely unprotected from people downloading them ua-cam.com/video/8fMbd9Zj0Xo/v-deo.htmlsi=IVVgRl9sXnc7vtGP Either that, or they downloaded it from somewhere else online because at the time, I did not protect my images with the watermarks. They could’ve used some sort of file upsizing software I suppose.
@@KrystleColeArt I used to work as an assistant for a publishing company which had image-based printed products. They reduced the sizes of images for web, in part to reduce theft. There are now various software that could upsize low res images. Or did they scan a print in your case & digitally manipulate it? Or most likely, they got the image from the website you said. Wonder if a student presented the stolen image as their art?
I don't think it was the student's fault because evidently the student who was supposed to have their art cover let the school know when they saw it in print that it was not their artwork. The school told me that they tried to figure out how it got there, but they could never determine exactly how it happened.
Thank you for making videos that are so informative!
This was so helpful, thank you. And thank you for the list of companies!
Happy to help 🎨
Thank you for sharing this in such a straightforward manner. It's annoying when content creators frontload information with a lot of irrelevant preamble and junk. 🎉
You’re welcome!
Wow this list is so useful. Thanks 🙏
10k ! wow thats a winner !
Thank you so much for this beautiful information and list!
Welcome 🤗
Great video, and thanks for sharing list of companies! Your the best!
Wow, your story about the school yearbook sounds so random, it's wild! Glad you got compensation. Did this effect your sales in any way, do some of those Australian students or their families buy from you, do you know? 🌈🐕
Since I was never publicly credited for my artwork being on the cover, I am fairly sure I did not get any sales from it. They would have no way to know who the artist was. But I was at least financially compensated for their mistake.
Thank you for this great, informative video! It leads me to additional questions…Do you get a mass copyright for groups of your art pieces before presenting them anywhere (even licensing companies)?
At Art fairs, do you have a certificate of authenticity attached to the back of your original paintings, as well as your prints (I’m trying to understand if that is a recommended practice)?
In the USA, artwork is automatically protected by copyright law as soon as it's created so you don't need to register your work with the copyright office or add a copyright notice to it to receive protection. I'm not sure how copyright protection works for other countries.
At art fairs, I do not provide certificates of authenticity for my original paintings and definitely not my prints. That said, some artists do give certificates of authenticity for originals, but I've never heard of anyone doing it for prints. I establish authenticity for my customers by hand signing my original paintings. They also get a receipt when they purchase. I feel that those two things are enough to prove that the artwork was painted by me and authentic. A certificate of authenticity is basically a fancy sales receipt to prove that the buyer purchased an authentic painting by a particular artist. Honestly, I don't have time at art fairs to mess with all that, it just creates extra busy work for me.
Some customers are really impressed by certificates of authenticity, though. But they're really just a receipt that you make yourself, printing it out on your computer. I suppose if you wanted to do that you could take a bunch of them with you and fill them out every time you sell an original an art fair. So it is an option...
You are such a hard worker and so creative. I can't ship my own work, and I'm not sure how to find a company interested in my artwork. I have so many questions 😅 I draw fan art, and I'm wondering if this will be an issue if I want to sell prints?
Fan art is difficult because you are actually infringing upon the copyright of the companies who created those characters, so you can't sell it anywhere online like Etsy because they'll just take it down and ban your account. But there is one place that you can legally sell some copyrighted fan art. And that is Red Bubble. There are certain characters that you can create under their agreements with the companies for copyright protection. They make all of the artwork for you and ship it out. You just upload your images. That said, artists don't make very much on red bubble.
@@KrystleColeArt thank you for answering 🙏 you are the best 💕
LOL! I liked how you showed this problem with a video with dumb boys throwing money here and there. You are the master painter Krystle Cole...
How do you go about licensing your paintings? I'm not quite sure of the term, but how can you ensure copyright protection for your works?
I answered your first question in the video I think, the first several minutes tell you all about what art licensing is and there are a list of companies that do licensing in the description of the video.
As for copyright, there has to be some level of trust between you and the company for you to give your artwork to them. Technically, you are signing a contract with them, allowing them to use your copyrighted artwork so they have the right to put it on products. Usually for a limited timeframe or a certain number of product run.
In the USA, as soon as you make a particular artwork, it is automatically covered by copyright protection. You own the copyright to everything you create. You don't need to do anything else to have it covered by copyright protection. Just create it, and you own the copyright. I'm not sure how it works in other countries.
@@KrystleColeArt Yes, I meant the copyright. I am not in the USA, but how would they know if this is your original artwork?
How did they get a high resolution image suitable for print in the first place?
I’m not 100% sure, but I think it was downloaded off of Saatchi because the image they used was one that I had uploaded to that website, I did an entire video talking about how they require you to upload large images and they are completely unprotected from people downloading them ua-cam.com/video/8fMbd9Zj0Xo/v-deo.htmlsi=IVVgRl9sXnc7vtGP
Either that, or they downloaded it from somewhere else online because at the time, I did not protect my images with the watermarks. They could’ve used some sort of file upsizing software I suppose.
@@KrystleColeArt I used to work as an assistant for a publishing company which had image-based printed products.
They reduced the sizes of images for web, in part to reduce theft.
There are now various software that could upsize low res images.
Or did they scan a print in your case & digitally manipulate it?
Or most likely, they got the image from the website you said. Wonder if a student presented the stolen image as their art?
I don't think it was the student's fault because evidently the student who was supposed to have their art cover let the school know when they saw it in print that it was not their artwork. The school told me that they tried to figure out how it got there, but they could never determine exactly how it happened.
@@KrystleColeArt it can't be by accident. It was deliberate & intentional. Just covering it up. At least they compensated you in the end.
Can artists still independently sell the work they’ve licensed out as images, or does licensing prohibit selling originals and prints?
You can still sell them yourself like as prints,originals, etc that you make yourself unless you sign a contract otherwise
Would you charge the 10k for yearbooks lady????