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Sell art prints online: copyright?
<p>Say I would like to sell hand framed art prints, for decorations, on e.g. ebay.</p>
<p>I have some example posters and so on, mainly modern art works from various modern art gallery's, often in the form of posters I have mocked up myself, with added text. It won't be recent works, mainly things like Picasso or David Hockney.</p>
<p>What is the copyright situation? Do I need to pay someone if a customer buys a print?</p>

<p>You need permission from the copyright holder(s) to <strong>make the prints</strong> at all unless it falls under some fair use doctrine or is a work in Public Domain. <em>If</em> permission is granted, it would presumably involve you paying money on some negotiated basis.</p>
<p>An artist might flatly refuse to give permission to your plan to use their art as a component of your art.</p>
