[Jewelry making - Article 00151] - Re: [Orchid] Wholesale dilemma

[Noel]

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>      Once someone buys your product, they can do whatever they want
>     with it.

    Thank goodness, this is not entirely true. They can't, for example,
    resell it as their own work. They can't use it as the basis of a
    direct copy, even in another medium. Anybody remember the story of
    the big-time "sculptor" who bought a postcard of an old man and a kid
    with a row of puppies on a bench, sent it to Asia to be made into a
    life-size resin sculpture, and sold a "limited series" of these
    (without ever putting his hand to them, except maybe to sign)? He got
    sued by the guy who took the photo, and had to hand over all the
    money. 

    We have intellectual property laws in the US. They may not be easy or
    cheap to enforce, but we have them. 

    Nonetheless, the original poster's point was correct (as far as I
    know) -- you can't control whether someone resells your work or for
    how much. You can ask them to sign an agreement, but I'm not sure you
    could enforce it if they chose to disregard it. But then, I'm a
    jeweler, not a lawyer! 

--Noel

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