Art Licensor and marketing maven, Tara Reed, has recently put her outstanding knowledge base of art licensing information in to this thoughtful and easy to understand e-book. Perfect for beginners, this 72 paged book will walk you through everything you need to know to get started putting your art on products.
Tara Reed has wonderfully jam packed this how to guide with information that you would normally pay several thousand dollars and years of trial and error to learn. Plus you get three insider interviews (artist, agent, manufacturer) that will illustrate clearly how the licensing process really works. If you are serious about learning how you can succeed in this very exciting industry, you would be crazy not to get a copy and give your art career the support it deserves.
“A Seminal Event”
“Unprecedented”
“The most effective advocacy in
opposition to these bills I have seen.”
“The Gathering of the Tribes”
These are some of the comments we’ve received from last Friday’s Roundtable on Orphan Works, conducted by the Small Business Administration. Artists, photographers, songwriters, musicians, writers and spokesmen for collateral businesses all made this the best attended Roundtable the SBA has conducted.
As one member of the audience said, perhaps the only good thing about the Orphan Works bill is that it’s brought so many creative communities together. The full house is the best measure of the concern creators have about this effort to undermine copyright law.
Key points to emerge from the discussion:
The high cost of digitizing and registering work with commercial databases will make compliance impossible for most artists.
This will cause billions of unregistered works to fall into the public domain.
To make money, commercial databases will have to promote and facilitate infringement.
Infringer-friendly databases will compete with artists for clients.
As one panelist summed up:
this bill “will socialize costs and privatize profits.”
“Milton Glaser is…well, words nearly don’t do him justice…one of the most important, prolific and profound leaders in visual and graphic arts in your lifetime and his. He is personally responsible for the design and illustration of more than 300 posters for clients in the areas of publishing, music, theater, film, institutional and civic enterprise, as well as those for commercial products and services. The image above and the essay below are reproduced here with permission. Read on to discover his sage advice with words that ring as true today as when written in 2001. Peruse his bio and work on his Milton Glaser Web site for more essays and insights into this man’s creative force, remarkable accomplishments and matchless oeuvre.”-Barney Davey
The Church of Our Lady in Fleet, Hampshire, England just reached its centenary in June of 2008. To commemorate this grand occasion they held a Flower Festival that uniquely depicts the life of Christ.
I was greatly honored to have my painting, “The Passion Flower” selected to mark such a special occasion, half a world away, with it’s use of my piece on posters, leaflets, invitations, flyers and programmes.
“The Passion Flower” by Cherish Flieder
Painted on an Easter Sunday, God inspired me with this image that illustrates, in an ethereal way, the spiritual beauty that comes only through suffering. My desire was to juxtapose the classic symbol of the “passion” flower (as established by Spanish monks while exploring the New World) and the piercing crown of thorns in the background to fully realize a symbol of Christ’s identity, suffering and His reward in exchange for the ultimate life-giving sacrifice on the cross. With this act, not only did He take on our sins to give us true life, but He also comforts and promises us to bring this rare beauty to our hearts when we experience sufferings of many kinds.
Art Licensor and marketing maven, Tara Reed, has recently put her outstanding knowledge base of art licensing information in to this thoughtful and easy to understand e-book. Perfect for beginners, this 72 paged book will walk you through everything you need to know to get started putting your art on products.
