Copyright Assignment Members  

What is copyright? Copyright is an economic right that gives you the opportunity to make commercial gain from the exploitation of your artworks. This is generally done by licensing the right to use the work to clients. This allows them to use the artwork for a specific purpose or purposes.

As you own copyright in your creative works you are the only person who has the right to make copies of your illustrations, unless you authorise others such as a client to do so.

What is a Copyright Assignment?

Copyright is a very valuable commodity. It gives the owner the exclusive right to reproduce an image (or sell on to allow others to reproduce it) in any way throughout the world for the period of copyright (the creator?s lifetime plus 70 years). 

Sometimes a client may not be sure of all the uses they may wish to use the image on, so ask