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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;all_fakes, post: 162461, member: 55&quot;]Yes.&nbsp;&nbsp; A person who buys a Disney watch owns the watch, but not the right to make more Disney watches.</p><p><br /></p><p>Similarly, an artist owns the copyright to his work, even if it is issued as an edition of prints, and buyers of the prints do not own the copyright or the right to make additional prints.&nbsp; And even if the original printing plates are sold, the copyright would not go with them.&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp; &nbsp; It would be odd to sell printing plates without the right to use them, of course...and I&#039;d suspect that a good lawyer could craft sales documents that made it clear whether or not copyrights were included in the sale.</p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; It could make a difference here if the copyrights were still owned by the heirs to the artist, even though the plates themselves have passed to Coreya.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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