I'm Just Sayin'

RIGHT TO WORK Contracts & Copyright, What it Means for Artists (mostly in this blog I'm talking about children's books)  Earlier this week on Facebook,  there was a discussion from an artist about taking work for hire work as an illustrator and whether or not she could ask for royalties, it was/is a great discussion, but it did get side tracked and turned into a conversation on copyright. I am just sharing information.  One of the persons in the conversation said that artists automatically keep the copyright and just look in any book on the shelves -those are NOT "work for hire" books, they are from big publishers and yes that is the case, artists do retain the copyright. It is standard for artists to retain copyrights, but if an artist is signing a "work for hire" contract they do need to add in a "right of use" clause or just have a right of use contract instead of the work for hire. I am talking specifically about WORK FOR HIRE h...