Licensed For A Lawsuit

One of the perks of being a book cover artist is being friends with other book cover artists and sharing a lot of interesting tales about the “backstage” of publishing. So when one of my friends spotted a book featuring Bieber and a dinosaur in an al fresco situation, there was mass clickage. (No, I won’t post a link to the book. Just…no.) Now, Bieb’s preferences aside, the book used his photo for the cover. And that’s what I’d like to talk about this month: Usage Rights, meaning the legal right to use an image to make money.

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