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This is what i have noted when I started to sell at
street fairs 1998 to 2006 is that the audience I sell to is mostly using the
pictures to decorate their homes or abode. However a few were bought by a doctor
using his own money to decorate a satellite UNC Family Clinic. Then I was
currently selling ~8 x 10" images matted to 11 x 14" mostly unframed but some
framed.
A picture hung in a professional office or a
corporate setting should sell for more than one sold to a home owner or
student. Now one answer I come up with is to sell larger images at twice
the size which is 4x time the area at 10x the price assuming businesses will buy
larger works.
I also considered selling the smaller pictures with
a license restricting it use but this would require a lot of explanations to
potential buyers at festivals. I don't know how a license on the back of a print
would effect retail store sales. For now I have just let the stores selling
my smaller generally campus oriented images to sell out.
Also with technology at such a high level today as
Randy points out a customer could up load a photo to the Internet and
essentially one controls of the image is lost. So another license to prevent
such practice??
The only winners I see are the lawyers.
Roy
In a message dated 11/16/2013 3:35:29 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,
randyslittle@xxxxxxxxx writes: And you can absolutely do whatever you like to a painting you own. What you can't do is make copies or derivative works. If I have a painting I can light it on fire and hang from a flag pole while it burns and there is nothing copyright laws would have to say about it. If you sell me a print I can do what ever I like to the print and if its me parading your work I can even then display it in public forum. |
