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Originally Posted by JackKnightStarman
I don't understand how you can copyright something, when you weren't paid by the copyright holder to create the work? If anything you have get permission to use some of the images that have already been copyrighted that you have been using to create "original" art to sell.
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Originally Posted by 120inna55
You used artwork that wasn't yours. Changing its composition doesn't make it yours, does it? (That's not meant to be antagonistic, but a legitimate question.)
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JackKnightStarman, I never sold my custom cover art.
But imagine this scenario. If I took a digital photo of an artist's painting, and cut it all up into pieces, and then made a portrait of President Obama with those pieces. I definitely do NOT own the copyright of the original painting, but I do own the copyright on my Obama portrait, even if it is a derived work. It is something I created (from another copyright work), so I own that implementation. Could I sell it? No, not unless I had a license from that original copyrighted painting.
But what is happening here, to use my fake scenario above, is that the original copyright owner is taking my Obama portrait and selling it. They own their work, but can't sell mine (unless I give permission).
Do you see what I'm saying?