Oh, guys you are not going to believe this, any advice on how to respond to this? The following is an email sent back to me from the purchaser of the artwork in question:
"Thanks for the email. We are fairly far along with the project but I will let everyone on the team know she would be willing to do some work with us. We are working on a shoestring budget as most indy projects are and the painting was a gift I bought for the singer on the album. It would be great if Tracy send me a statement related to letting us use the piece for the CD? I am not sure that we will but if we do it would be good to have our bases covered. I will definately recognize her work in the credits.
The project is being mastered and should be ready in January, hopefully, although I have my doubts after working on this for over a year."
I really love the "I'm not sure if we will, but if we do", part. So that is where we stand now. Is it just me or is that f****d up? Also, to update you on what I have done, I now have the "poor mans" copyright package in my possesion. And I included everything in there, source photos, pre-sketches, I think if it ever goes that far it is going to be obvious that I am the author of the art work. I also think they might have screwed up by sending me that email since I now have it on record that they know it is my art work and want authorization to use it.
So how should I handle this from here? I don't want to be really ugly about this but I think it needs to be made clear that it is not up to them whether or not the art gets used.
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