From: Rob Hudson <[email protected]>
selling Robert Harbin Angelfish on Etsy......
I want to sell Ligiya Montoya parrots as earrings and include
instructions.........
Those who believe the rights to intellectual property persist and are
inheritable...................
Hi Rob and All,
It's often difficult to find next of kin and copyright
owners of deceased designers. Intellectual property is inheritable and
during my time as PR officer for the BOS I had several questions about this.
Not always answered easily or at all.
It would help greatly if there was a database of copyright holders
somewhere.
However for your information, both Robert Harbin and Eric Kennaway
bequeathed their copyrights to The British Origami Society. The society
still receives small royalty payments on book sales.
If you where selling their models and it came to our notice, we would
probably ask you to stop.
There are four trustees and I am one of them. The others are: - the current
BOS Chairman, Mark Bolitho, the current magazine editor, Tung Ken Lam and
Mick Guy.
If you want to enquire about using Robert Harbin and Eric Kennaway models
please contact the secretary via our web page www.britishorigami.info He
will pass on the information. Copyright permissions are granted (or denied.)
by majority vote of the four trustees.
We are in contact with Dave Lister's family. They have indicated that we
might be requested to handle copyright on his material.
Regarding Ligiya Montoya copyright. This is more difficult as some of her
models are in Robert Harbin books. BOS holds copyright on the books but not
on individual models.
Generally if your making money out of somebody's design without their
permission or that of the copyright holder, it's probably best not to.
Regards,
Nigel Elworthy.
