My Dad Painted Jethro Tull’s ‘Aqualung’ Cover and It’s Haunted Him
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Re: My Dad Painted Jethro Tull’s ‘Aqualung’ Cover and It’s Haunted Him
#2I have trouble feeling bad for the guy. He was paid what he had agreed to.
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#3I have trouble feeling bad for the guy. He was paid what he had agreed to.
Yes, with no contract, it was work for hire.
And it's understandable that he feels bad about it. So I do feel bad for him. We've all made mistakes.
Given the headline, I had expected more than grief about no royalties. I mean, that is a disturbing old man.
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#4I have trouble feeling bad for the guy. He was paid what he had agreed to.
I feel bad for the guy. The album was pretty successful...
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#5key part:
"[A lawyer specializing in this sort of law] explained that when dad and Chrysalis came to a handshake agreement, as long as the paintings were originally considered “works made for hire,” the copyright for the paintings always belonged to Chrysalis, thanks to the 1909 Copyright Act. Copyright laws were amended in 1978, making it more difficult for commissioned works to qualify as “works made for hire,” especially in instances where a contract was less-than-specific. Unfortunately, the courts have heavily favored publishers for cases that dated prior to 1978, which means dad missed the cutoff by a scant seven years."
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#6He should have leveraged the success of the album to get high paid work.
Jim Carrey was offered $350K for Dumb and Dumber, which he turned down (he wanted $400K). Then when Ace Ventura became a surprise hit, the offer for Dumb and Dumber was raised to $7,000,000, which he took. He made only $350K for Ace Ventura, but that opened the door to a bigger payday.
Based on the success of Dumb and Dumber, he was the first actor ever to be paid $20M, for Cable Guy, a flop at the box office.
You get paid for /previous/ success, and that's what the author's dad should have learned.
Edit: removed mistaken reference to Liar Liar, thanks
Re: My Dad Painted Jethro Tull’s ‘Aqualung’ Cover and It’s Haunted Him
#7He should have leveraged the success of the album to get high paid work. Jim Carrey was offered $350K for Dumb and Dumber, which he turned down (he wanted $400K). Then when Ace Ventura became a surprise hit, the offer for Dumb and Dumber was raised to $7,000,000, which he took. He made only $350K for Ace Ventura, but that opened the door to a bigger payday. Based on the success of Dumb and Dumber, he was the first ac…
I'm not quite sure there's any metric you could use to declare Liar Liar a "total flop", but sure.
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#8He should have leveraged the success of the album to get high paid work. Jim Carrey was offered $350K for Dumb and Dumber, which he turned down (he wanted $400K). Then when Ace Ventura became a surprise hit, the offer for Dumb and Dumber was raised to $7,000,000, which he took. He made only $350K for Ace Ventura, but that opened the door to a bigger payday. Based on the success of Dumb and Dumber, he was the first ac…
Do markets for art work in the same way as markets for talent in film? To what extent does success in mass media illustration correspond to success in selling singular art objects?
Re: My Dad Painted Jethro Tull’s ‘Aqualung’ Cover and It’s Haunted Him
#9He should have leveraged the success of the album to get high paid work. Jim Carrey was offered $350K for Dumb and Dumber, which he turned down (he wanted $400K). Then when Ace Ventura became a surprise hit, the offer for Dumb and Dumber was raised to $7,000,000, which he took. He made only $350K for Ace Ventura, but that opened the door to a bigger payday. Based on the success of Dumb and Dumber, he was the first ac…
I'm not quite sure there's any metric you could use to declare Liar Liar a "total flop", but sure.
Yeah, 302M box office vs. 45M budget hardly seems like a flop
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#10I have trouble feeling bad for the guy. He was paid what he had agreed to.
You're the type of guy that looks for loopholes in board game rules and then acts all whiny when people call you an asshole for it. You're the type of the guy to start arguing semantics in the middle of a friendly debate at the pub and just keep going when everyone else stopped caring thirty minutes ago. You are, undoubtedly, a Reaganomics apologist. C'mon, dude.