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[-] teawrecks@sopuli.xyz 1 points 10 months ago

When you buy a painting, do you only have a license to view it?

That's a good question. My guess is that the rights to create prints of the painting usually remain with the artist. You own that painting, you probably even own the right to display it for an entry fee, but unless the artist has granted you a license to the artwork, I don't think you can freely create copies.

[-] CallumWells@lemmy.ml 2 points 10 months ago

Indeed, the right to make copies are often licenced (although you can also sell that right) because it is explicitly written in some conventions (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berne_Convention?useskin=vector) that the copyright resides with the creator to begin with. I don't think the Berne Convention deals with the option of transferring intellectual property and the copyright to them, but I'm assuming it's mostly defined well enough in some contract law or other.

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