What about where a client and artist are not in the same country, and the tattoo artist consent to and sells a design to the client for the client to have another tattoo artist do the design they have purchase, is that copying?
What if a tattoo artist sells a design to a client for the client to instruct another tattoo artist to do on them, is this copyright theft?
(same set of facts ^)
What about if the tattoo artist and client are not in the same country, is this copyright theft?
What about if the tattoo artist consent to the sold design being done by someone else, is this copyright theft?
Do you agree the key to copyright is consent?
Is copyright theft for you any work the artist conceptualise that somebody else does?
Is copyright theft consent?
yes, no, doesn’t matter
???
@true.blue.studio doesn’t know that client bought my design for them to tattoo
@true.blue.studio thought client took my design to them without my consent
I explained and let them know the situation and asked them if I can repost their post
I was surprised this week on my professional tattoo account to be presented with a potential client telling me they would steal my work, and laughing about doing so.
I immediately posted the exchange as an Instagram story, and received a tremendous amount of support from both followers and fans of my work, and also from other tattoo artists about this.
I decided this would be an excellent example of the type of theft of intellectual property which I want to address, alongside a demonstration within the echo chamber of Instagram of some opinions of this type of behaviour.
I have posted this 3 pictures on my Instagram story and I have got a lot of DMs
Here is the entire exchange between myself and the client. I have blanked their name out, and did so also in the Instagram story, despite many people suggesting I should “name and shame them”
In total 51 tattoo artists and followers responded within 1 hour, and I spent some time responding to the messages of support received. Below are examples of a few of these.
DM from tattoo artist
DM from tattoo artist
DM from client
DM from tattoo artist
DM from client
DM from tattoo artist
I did a reposted from @cosmobotic and add my own opinion
Following these responses, my classmate Lidia Huerte reached out to me with a direct message suggesting we conduct a video interview to capture my reactions and emotions related to this experience. Below is the direct message, and the video.
The consensus of opinion based on engagement with the Instagram story I posted is that the theft of work in this form was fundamentally wrong and entirely unacceptable. It is important to recognize that the environment of Instagram and responses on there are not rigorous in their ability to represent opinion, however, it is an interesting experiment “in the wild” showing a genuine example of theft of work with it having happened to me personally.
Also, this gives me an opportunity to demonstrate in a very real way why the focus of my major project theme matters to me and other tattoo artists.
Intellectual Property (IP) are legal rights which are designed to protect the financial and reputational elements of your work. Equally they ensure that others benefit from your contribution to society. They do not last forever to help encourage healthy creative, cultural and commercial exchange
IP includes:
Copyright (creative works)
Trademarks (brand, reputation)
Design rights (the look or shape of a product)
Patents (inventions, the way things work)
What ‘protecting your work’ means?
Whatever motivates you to create, most will have some cultural and social value as well as potential commercial benefit
From UAL online course – From idea to industry : valuing your creative rights
