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WCDT 4456-4460 (the 8th through 12th of February, 2021)
awkwardness:
--- Quote from: Tyr on 08 Feb 2021, 22:36 ---
--- Quote from: awkwardness on 08 Feb 2021, 20:35 ---They don't own you, they don't own the artwork that they put on you.
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Actually, tattoo artists are permitted to copyright their designs. When you receive a tattoo, you have purchased a print of the design in the medium of ink on flesh, and have a license to display that specific print. Recreating the design itself in another medium, e.g. ink on synthetic dermal, could be construed as outside of fair use. The artist would not sue our hypothetical crash victim, but rather the studio/body shop that recreated the design without permission.
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The loophole is if they haven't filed for copyright protection or if their copyright doesn't cover new media: like synthetic skin. And if they were "protecting their copyright" they would never allow anyone to alter their designs- yet it's done every day by tattoo parlors, especially for tattoos that are botched. You don't see any of them suing other artists over the alterations of their designs, the only time they sue is when they can make a buck off of someone who is famous and whose likeness is going to be used. But even then, they have to actually file the copyright which most can't be bothered to do.
And if they go after someone because they are recreating artwork that was damaged because of a loss of limb they are scumbags. It's one thing to "protect their art" but it's another to be emotionally heartless. If they tied to go after an artist for recreating artwork on a lost limb they would end up blackballed and shunned. It's horrible business.
Gnabberwocky:
All my attention is drawn my the fact that Faye is telepathically controlling the arm she's holding to point at Willow. I know it's just a small easter egg, but she is remotely making a mechanical object move without manipulating it. I can't focus on anything else.
awkwardness:
--- Quote from: Penquin47 on 09 Feb 2021, 21:10 ---I asked a friend in the tattoo industry about this, and she said that no, your tattoo is yours. You can stop work mid-tattoo and go to another artist and have them finish it, if you'd like. The artist might get upset, but there isn't really anything they can do to stop you. Same principle would hold for having it repaired later by another artist.
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Your friend might want to take note: this actually is a real case that's winding its way through the courts right this moment and is continuing onward. The artist has a lot to lose, not just any wrestlers alongside the recipient
Scarlet Manuka:
--- Quote from: Gus_Smedstad on 09 Feb 2021, 20:32 ---I'm pretty sure when Sam first started doing the drawings, it was considered new and unusual by Bubbles' and Faye's clients. I'm not sure, though, and I failed miserably at looking up the first strip where her drawings were introduced.
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She drew on Punchbot's temporary patch just to make it look awesome. Then the next thing we know another robot walks in and asks "is this the place doing the sprays?". So the name and concept clearly predated Sam's involvement, but it does seem like there wasn't really anyone local doing them before Sam got into it.
Penquin47:
There's a difference between recreating the artwork for a video game and recreating it on the person for whom the tattoo was designed. For one thing, the person who has it recreated on their new prosthetic arm is not financially benefitting from the art without sharing with the artist.
This is a lot more akin to "I own a print of a portrait of some famous person. It got damaged in a tornado and now part of it is missing. I'm going to pay my artist friend to redo the missing part as close to the original as possible." Or "I learned something about this famous person and now I despise them, so I'm going to deface the portrait by gluing googly eyes on and drawing a mustache and adding ridiculous blotches to their face." You own the print. You can do whatever you want to it.
(The first analogy doesn't hold up perfectly - after all, it would probably be cheaper and easier to just buy a new print than to try to have the old one restored - but still useful. While going to the original artist would be the polite, preferred thing to do to have your tattoo redone, it may not always be feasible for various reasons.)
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