Trying to figure out where the legalities stand before working on a contract for Dragon Art.

From Chapter 3/7 of License Your Invention

Copyright and Independent Contractors

If you are an independent contractor , the person hiring you will own the work only if your work belongs in one of the following categories listed in the copyright act:

1. a contribution to a collective work.
2. the list goes on…

It is not nearly that cut and dry. I am not hiring Mona in the strictest sense of exchanging money for goods. So it is important that we put in writing how I am going to compensate her. Also, the I am not sure if what she is doing would count as a “contribution to a collective work.” That phrase may be referring to a single contribution among many, whereas Mona will be doing more like 1/3 to 1/2 of the art.

Here is the Poser dragon model: dragon.exe, in PC downloadable format. I’ll put up some “sketches” after I find a copy of Poser and learn how to use it

Here’s a long overdue update, good thing I planned ahead and gave my timeline some slack during the holidays:

The Research Log is all linked up and running.

My Bibliography is getting fleshed out.

The dragon model has been purchased and the Card Art project is getting under way.

I’ve run into a bit of a snag with the original survey that I have running on the public site. The information has been gathered into text files, but isn’t very useful in that form. I need to write a simple database to drop the information into and then write some queries to analyze it.

Here is the Poser Dragon Model we’re considering using as a starting point for the cards.