Help?!

So I sold a design to someone to print a little while ago. I won’t call them out unless they continue doing what I think they’re going to do. I just received an email from them, and they want to post the design I made on threadless. I’m not happy about this, they actually want me to make all the little pictures so they can post the design as their own. Anyone else think this is kinda wrong? what should i do?

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   MadeByMAS said 4 months ago

   I took care of it already man, no worries

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   derekdeal said 4 months ago

   sounds like someone just got balled

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   wotto said 4 months ago

   oops

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   MadeByMAS said 4 months ago

   he emailed me as well and I just kind of let him know the deal with it and he understood

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   sittingduck said 4 months ago

   MadeByMAS said: I took care of it already man, no worries

   thanks man, I was really unhappy to wake up to that this morning. just to clarify to everyone else, it wasn’t madebymas who did this, he acts as a middle man for me sometimes and this client happened to be through him.

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   jared said 4 months ago

   if I were you, I’d specify what rights you are actually selling when you sell artwork from now on. For instance: all design credit and right to redistribute the design itself are reserved for you, while they can only print it for themselves, etc.

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   faithbydesign said 4 months ago

   That’s terrible. Threadless and DBH are communities for the artist to showcase THEMSELVES and try to make some money. Not for a company to previously purchase artwork for a personal line and then intend to sell it to another company.

   This is not "flip that design" which would be an interesting show on bravo. LOL

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   heroes said 4 months ago

   could you not just email threadless?

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   sittingduck said 4 months ago

   jared said: if I were you, I’d specify what rights you are actually selling when you sell artwork from now on. For instance: all design credit and right to redistribute the design itself are reserved for you, while they can only print it for themselves, etc.

   yea, I’ve been doing that lately, I think I’m just confusing my clients though. actually I am confusing my clients. They can’t seem to understand that I want to retain rights to the piece unless they pay a much larger fee. It’s not like I resell my artwork to anyone once it’s sold, I just don’t want to get screwed in this sort of situation.

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    sittingduck said 4 months ago

    heroes1985 said: could you not just email threadless?

    I guess I’m asking what the best way to go about this is so it doesn’t happen again in the future, I already let the client know I didn’t agree with what he was doing.

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    heroes said 4 months ago

    i really dont think there is anything you can ultimately do

    if there gonna be dicks there still gonna be dicks if u make them sign something

    i think the best thing you can do is build up good relationships with clients and only work for people you trust i know this doesnt help your current situation but its all just a learning curve i guess you need these things to happen to you early so you learn from them if that makes any sence

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