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Cover revisions. When you can't reach your former artist
alhawke:
I'm looking into converting an ebook cover to an audio cover for an audiobook project. Thing is... I haven't spoken with the artist in three years. If I can't reach her with correspondence, how much can I adapt the ebook cover? I think, and dread, that the cover will have to be completely remade if I can't work with the original artist. Right???
Post-Crisis D:
Depends upon what kind of agreement/contract you had with the cover artist.
alhawke:
What if no contract? The art is unique and copyrighted upon release, like our writing, I'd think.
One option is not altering the ebook and just adding a background. But I think that would look unprofessional.
A related question is: can you adapt prior covers, typography and content, with a different cover artist?
In my current case, I'm just worried about not getting in touch with her. But I have other projects that I bet I'll need redos and changes in the future too.
LilyBLily:
Conveniently, my first cover artist died. So I bought licenses for the basic images she'd used and sent them to another cover artist and had the cover mostly redone. Did I have the original Photoshop file? Nope. All I had were what I'd been provided for ebook and print.
If you can't contact your original cover designer, you might try an image search and do the same thing; then you'd be free to use any designer with the updates. The cover designer may hold copyright to the cover they designed, but they don't hold the rights to the images used unless they drew them themselves. This assumes your original designer didn't do extensive alterations of the licensed images. Some designers do, but others don't.
alhawke:
--- Quote from: LilyBLily on July 19, 2024, 05:34:01 AM ---This assumes your original designer didn't do extensive alterations of the licensed images. Some designers do, but others don't.
--- End quote ---
Many times, artists can find the stock photos. But , unfortunately, there is a lot to the final design.
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