Post by gynocrat on May 6, 2005 16:45:44 GMT -5
Someone was cool enough to buy me a shirt from Anime Boston... With OUR WOLF'S RAIN ART ON IT. You know, the one where Tsume has his arm around Toboe.
So I have taken down the gallery- redesigned the site - and contacted this vendor. Japanese artists need OFP, but Americans have implied copyright, even when it's derivative works.
>:(If we can't sell the T-shirt, neither CAN YOU!!!
Since I have an attorney for my studio I made him place the call and remind this man fanarts are not public domain and my circle broke no laws in 'posting' them. We've never sold our fan pictures, not even on Binsen [stationary] even though we do trade/sell fan books - that is another matter. This vendor was cool enough to offer to send us part of the profit- but my attorney reminded him all profits from fan sales do in fact belong to Studio Bones [that means if someone from Bones called me today and said, we want the money from the doujins you sold--I would have to give it to them.] That's how Japanese copyright law works- and it's how fair use of copyright is implied here in America.
So sorry to anyone who visits and wonders where the gallery is and why the fansite is not so extensive...nor will it ever be. >_<
Studio Plug'n Play
wolfsrain.studioplugnplay.com
So I have taken down the gallery- redesigned the site - and contacted this vendor. Japanese artists need OFP, but Americans have implied copyright, even when it's derivative works.
>:(If we can't sell the T-shirt, neither CAN YOU!!!
Since I have an attorney for my studio I made him place the call and remind this man fanarts are not public domain and my circle broke no laws in 'posting' them. We've never sold our fan pictures, not even on Binsen [stationary] even though we do trade/sell fan books - that is another matter. This vendor was cool enough to offer to send us part of the profit- but my attorney reminded him all profits from fan sales do in fact belong to Studio Bones [that means if someone from Bones called me today and said, we want the money from the doujins you sold--I would have to give it to them.] That's how Japanese copyright law works- and it's how fair use of copyright is implied here in America.
So sorry to anyone who visits and wonders where the gallery is and why the fansite is not so extensive...nor will it ever be. >_<
Studio Plug'n Play
wolfsrain.studioplugnplay.com
