Good Licenses are Based on Good Agreements

I’ve been in art licensing for so long that I’ve heard a ton of “horror stories” from artists who’ve made mistakes that should have been completely avoidable. One of the worst comes from an inability to read and understand basic licensing contracts. Read It And Weep Here’s an example: one artist told me he was […]

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4 Major Potholes on the Road to Success in Licensing Your Art, and How to Avoid Them

The great majority of artists know nothing, or next to nothing, about the business of art licensing. This is really not surprising because I could probably count on the fingers of one hand the B.F.A. programs and the art schools that teach anything significant to their students about how they can make money as an […]

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Why Mailed Art Submissions Just Don’t Work

Before the rise of the internet, if an artist wanted to submit artwork to a publisher, agent or manufacturer, the artist either had to do it personally in a face-to-face meeting or else send the art submission through the mail. Back then, artists were told that mailed submissions had to have a self-addressed stamped envelope […]

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