Helpful tips 

Who owns the rights to album cover art?

Joe Ford

Who owns the rights to album cover art?

If you have hired and paid an artist or photographer to create a visual image for your album cover, that artist or photographer will still own the copyright in the work unless that creator has assigned the copyright ownership to you or your band.

Can I paint an album cover and sell it?

Re: Copyright laws – logos, album covers, photographs It’s not legal. You can put the product and even sell it for some time but sooner or later your product is moved away because there are ways the enterprises have to detect it on the web.

Can I put an album cover on a shirt?

It’s not. You’d have to submit that design to a t-shirt vendor and ask them to reproduce it; that’s distribution. You could identify a specific logo, image, or album cover you want to use and ask permission to make a t-shirt for yourself with that on it.

Are album covers fair use?

Book covers, album covers, and movie covers are copyrightable. However, fair use, a provision of copyright law, gives users the right to use copyrighted material without permission under certain circumstances. If a use is fair, the user need not notify or seek permission from the copyright holder.

How do I print a CD cover size?

The standard CD cover size is 4.75 by 4.75 inches, or 12 cm by 12 cm. This dimension is for the front or back cover of a standard jewel CD case. To use these dimensions for your document dimensions in Word, go to the Size menu on the Page Layout tab. Select More Paper Sizes from the menu.

How big is a CD case in CM?

12cm x 12cm

How do you put pictures on a CD from the front?

How to Burn a Picture Onto the Outside of a CD LightScribe

  1. Launch the writing software that came with your computer.
  2. Click on “Label Creator” and then “Add Image” on the “Add Object or Picture” menu.
  3. Insert a LightScribe disk into your computer, label side down.
  4. Click “File” and then “Print” to burn the picture to the CD.

Can you put stickers on DVDs?

Don’t put stickers on the DVDs whatsoever. Get a magic marker and write the contents on the disc itself OR like what Josh stated.

How do you label a DVD?

Ways of Labeling

  1. Marker Pens. The fastest and easiest way of labeling a disc is writing on it with a marker.
  2. Adhesive Labels. A more attractive way to label a disc is to print a label on special paper with a printer and apply it to the disc.
  3. HP Tattoo. An interesting variety of labels are Hewlett-Packard Tattoo labels.
  4. Labels on Rolls.