Fill your boots!

You wont be the first person this week to have done it and no one has ever been persued for it.

One of the seaside towns was in the news last year for trying to sell the right to use the town logo as a tattoo but they pretty much got told to f off and they did.

Hi

In law the copy of any image by electronic or mechanical means can mean an infringement of copyright or theft of intellectual property.

In reality there has not been a successful forced removal or criminal prosecution against a person who has used art that is copyrighted as a tattoo (ie the wearer of the image).

The only cases brought were where an artist had taken the image exactly and then was selling the image commercially as flash without permission.

The people who had the ink done were not challenged but the artists who were using the images without permission on a mass scale were. It managed to piss off the corporate owner of the image. Not so much for the tattoo aspect but the selling of image without royalties or permission. Even this was a rare case.

Many artists I have met have stated they are (or would be) flattered if an individual took their work for a one off piece and wanted to wear it on their body for life.

It is always polite to ask if able.

That said if you can prove that the image used is merely an inspiration but does not share the body of the orig works it then comes under the murky deriviative vs new art argument which is why ppl simply have never bothered to pursue it based on one offs.

So really shouldn’t have a prob with getting it done.

Take Care
Matthew