This Interview with Lance Klass, President of Porterfield's Fine Art Licensing, was conducted by Alex Colombo and published in his The Moon From My Attic art blog: I've been working on my first licensing collection. So far I managed to not throw away anything...however, some concepts didn't work that well after I placed them on mock-ups or templates of real products. Creating art for licensing is actually a different type of design work and I am starting to adjust my ideas to fit. It's a... [More]

If you come upon unauthorized use of your artwork on the internet, there's a straightforward way under the law to seek the removal of the artwork. The Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA) states that while an Internet Service Provider (ISP) is not liable for transmitting information that may infringe a copyright, the ISP must remove materials from users’ Web sites that appear to constitute copyright infringement after it receives proper notice from the copyright holder. Attorney Ca... [More]