Digital BW, The Print

No rights, certainly. However if the recipient chooses to take aforesaid print and sell it to a gallery or interested party, patch a hole in their wall with it, or shred it and use it for kitty litter, there is nothing stopping them from doing that. It cannot be sold as a piece to be used for marketing/advertising (there is implied copyright, though the individual who made it probably never registered it). Look at it as if you had bought a coca-cola sign at a garage sale . . . it has obviously been bought/sold/redistributed many a time, all legal, no one hopefully has been stupid enough to try and use the sign/logo for their own marketing though (it does happen sometimes).

Whoever started this thread, get over the fact that someone sold/gave away one of your prints . . . you did exactly the same thing . . . you gave it away. If you think that you are the next Picasso, Weston or whatever, get a few books on the legal ramifications of copyright and learn what it means before you toss your work out to the unsuspecting public, but read quickly though . . . there is always some other twist or turn happening in the intellectual property rights world.

good luck
Paul Aparycki


  I AM, however, bringing up the point that WE as exchange participants must
  understand that there are no "rights" transferred with the exchange. 

  Seth


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