ok...another twist on the clipart. you scan something that some one gives you(local, worldwide,corporation)logo or you build it from lookin at a picture of it, use it for its intended purpose, but now you got time, effort and now youve got a perfect vector of this piece of CLIPART!! do you delete it? save it for another day, you may need it? someone else needs said piece... can you give, sell, loan, them this clipart? and how many pieces of scanned clipart have you gotten without purchasing a license to use it? see now it gets tricky.... how many have a BOWTIE, BLUE OVAL FORD, HEARTBEAT, and your favorite football team...national or college or even highschool? ive done a lot of baseball field signs, most are local and have logos, should i destroy them after i use them...knowing i might need it again in the future? huuuuummmmmmmmmmmmmmm
Posted by Doug Allan (Member # 2247) on :
You mean other people throw away some of their files? I thought thats what 60 gig hard drives & cd burners were for. (& now DVD burners) I've saved everything I've done on the computer for the last 6 years. I love it when someone needs a sign with a logo on it that I already have. I tell them my base price then the additional price for adding the logo to the sign. Then I ask if they have a digital file. If they don't sometimes I charge them for that too, but offer them a copy on disc.
Posted by jimmy chatham (Member # 525) on :
i lose things sometime but i never throw anything away.
Posted by Gilead (Member # 158) on :
I once painted a Starbucks logo on the window of a Starbucks (they were having visibility problems). It worked great and got them lots of business, but the corporate guys made them clean it off and informed them that I had broken the law by using the logo without permission. That makes no sense to me, I figure if I was hired by Starbucks to do it then that constitutes permission. I don't know if they were even right on this or not.
I used to do a lot of Point Of Sale work for grocery stores, usually as part of a contest. When the movie "Muppet Treasure Island" came out they had a product tie in with Dole bananas and offered some kind of prize to the store that made the best display using muppets and bananas. In some cases, as in this one, there would be a paragraph in the paperwork that gave the store a limited extension of copyright to use the muppets to sell only dole bananas and only on this one occasion. So I made a bunch of muppet foamcore cut-outs dressed in pirate costumes with treasure chests full of bananas etc. Everybody loved it and we won the contest, but I refused to sign the peices and I was very glad I did because the store kept the artwork for years and used it to sell all kinds of other stuff. They could have gotten into BIG trouble over this and me too if my name and phone # had been on the stuff.
Anyways usually when a team hires you to paint their logo that implies a limited extension of copyright for the purpose of doing their sign, but it does not entitle you to open a team shop and start selling t-shirts or something.
Posted by Mark Fair Signs (Member # 289) on :
destroy them joe, or you will burn in copyright hell my friend!
LOL enough already, hahahaahahaaha
(old paint is in his backyard right now burning everything from 3.5 floppies to zip discs and CDs!)
they are coming for you joe!!!!
Posted by old paint (Member # 549) on :
i did a couple NAPA logos, for an in store sign, the factory reps camin one day and asked the manager where he got that, he told them he had paid a sign guy to make it...they told him i wasnt legally able to make NAPA LOGOS!!!!! and how many have i done on stock cars and NAPA CARE CENTERS!!!!!!
Posted by Mark Fair Signs (Member # 289) on :
DESTROY THOSE NAPA LOGOS NOW PAINT!
they are turning onto your street, even as we speak.
oops, i forgot, could you send me that NAPA logo in an eps format?
hahahahahaha
[ August 08, 2002, 02:17 AM: Message edited by: Mark Fair Signs ]
Posted by old paint (Member # 549) on :
no problem mark....but i gota sell it to ya...$2.....heheheheheheheheh
Posted by Peter Manzolillo (Member # 1062) on :
KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK......."Drop the floppies and step AWAY from the computer!"
