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Michelle Luna's avatar

Thanks for sharing your experience at this type of expo. I hope your deal with the kids' virtual reality start-up does through. ...Funny thing, when reading this I thought of the show Halt and Catch Fire :-)

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Darcy Pattison's avatar

Hey! First EVERYTHING is negotiable. Just because an illustrator says something, doesn’t mean you can’t find a middle ground that meets the needs of both!

Usually, you contract for illustrations for a book and the contract is based on that. You can do a royalty share or a work-for-hire contract, whatever meets your needs and the illustrator will agree to. Often a work-for-hire contract is for all rights, which means you can use the art for anything you like.

However, for a royalty share contract, or as part of the negotiations for a work-for-hire contract, if you want to use the illustrations outside the book, say for stickers, calendars, basis of a plush doll, then you are asking for more rights. The illustrator will often ask for additional fees for licensing these extra rights.

It’s all in the contract. Did you provide the contract, or did they? I ALWAYS provide my own contracts, so I can control all of that.

Darcy

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