Tattoos & Copyright Laws

[MD_PROPER]

Copyright laws on Tattoos seems like a stretch... When you hire a tattoo artist they're more like a contracted employee and anything they create for a client belongs soley to the client and can be displayed and shared at the clients disgression. The artist loses all rights to the work once their services are paid for.

As for copyright infringement, the artist has no right to the tattoo after the services were rendered, so there's nothing to infringe on.

Inb4 people start taking contracts to ink sessions

 

[marc123]

smh fohwtbs

 

[DoubleShotHelix]

Copyright laws on Tattoos seems like a stretch... When you hire a tattoo artist they're more like a contracted employee and anything they create for a client belongs soley to the client and can be displayed and shared at the clients disgression. The artist loses all rights to the work once their services are paid for.

As for copyright infringement, the artist has no right to the tattoo after the services were rendered, so there's nothing to infringe on.

Inb4 people start taking contracts to ink sessions

Yep, the same as being bought out for a song you wrote or produced. You don't get residuals or points. That shit is 100% the complete intellectual property of the purchaser.

With tattoos its even dumber though considering 99.99999999999% tattoos are not even remotely original.

 

[jono]

Copyright laws on Tattoos seems like a stretch... When you hire a tattoo artist they're more like a contracted employee and anything they create for a client belongs soley to the client and can be displayed and shared at the clients disgression. The artist loses all rights to the work once their services are paid for.

As for copyright infringement, the artist has no right to the tattoo after the services were rendered, so there's nothing to infringe on.

Inb4 people start taking contracts to ink sessions

Yep, the same as being bought out for a song you wrote or produced. You don't get residuals or points. That shit is 100% the complete intellectual property of the purchaser.

With tattoos its even dumber though considering 99.99999999999% tattoos are not even remotely original.

That's why we have courts though. If people are settling out of court then they probably have standing and can make a good case.

It's interesting to say the least.

 

[MD_PROPER]

Copyright laws on Tattoos seems like a stretch... When you hire a tattoo artist they're more like a contracted employee and anything they create for a client belongs soley to the client and can be displayed and shared at the clients disgression. The artist loses all rights to the work once their services are paid for.

As for copyright infringement, the artist has no right to the tattoo after the services were rendered, so there's nothing to infringe on.

Inb4 people start taking contracts to ink sessions

Yep, the same as being bought out for a song you wrote or produced. You don't get residuals or points. That shit is 100% the complete intellectual property of the purchaser.

With tattoos its even dumber though considering 99.99999999999% tattoos are not even remotely original.

That's why we have courts though. If people are settling out of court then they probably have standing and can make a good case.

It's interesting to say the least.

If these type of lawsuits become common place it would open up a whole other can of worms. Will this mean the estates of Eazy-E, 2Pac, Aaliyah and others could sue people like Game, Drake, etc for having the likeness of their loved ones tattooed on their bodies?

 

[rickmogul]

Monetizing is going 2 ruin soooo many products going forward.

 

[VulcanRaven]

They don't own the player's body so they shouldn't get anything. The player already paid them for their work so ownership should go to the player.

 

[BiblicalAtheist]

The scheming to make free money on this planet is out of hand.