paulogaspar

That is not correct my friend, and not how the law works. The creator has the copyright of anything he makes except when he is being paid to do so. Upon payment, the ownership belongs to the payer. Mind this very suttle but very important detail: In fiverr you’re not paying to own a copy of the work, you’re paying to own the original. In fact, if it were otherwise, you would need “commercial rights” in every single job on fiverr. Why don’t you need commercial rights for a logo design? Or a webpage development? Because that’s not how it works. The DVD analogy doesn’t make any sense, because you don’t OWN the movie, only a copy. And therefore you have a copy licence you need to respect. Which has absolutely nothing to do with work on fiverr. I insist, this is just Fiverr’s BS to have increased revenues. Also, I’m not undervalueing the artists price, in fact I’m telling you that the final price of the job should already include the copyright transmission.

What’s your intent of even asking? Call me paranoid but are you about to rip a voice artist off by not buying commercial rights when you know you should? Because that is how it sounds and feels to me. Rip off, really? Let me clarify you with something: when you pay a creator, be it a music writer,a designer or a voice artist or even a programmer to do a job, you OWN everything that is made from that job. Period. You can do whatever you please with the resulting work, commercially or otherwise, for as long as Fiverr’s TOS don’t claim ownership or copyright of things made through this website. This “commercial rights” thing is just a very large BS rip off from fiverr, and nothing else. There is no legal base whatsoever for it. This is equivalent to hiring someone to do a makeover of your house, and years later, when you wish to sell your house, you need to pay “commercial rights” to the remodeling person or company??? Hahaha, it’s just ridiculous.