Business Of Art On Demand

Who is Charles Saatchi you ask?

the man who reinvented art...

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2011/jul/10/charles-saatchi-british-art-yba

Have a great day everyone...

Cheers, Barbara

i have a feeling this thread will close due to new rules, but he that owns the name of the site, the another person with the same name, it's bound to happen.


---Mike Savad
MikeSavad.com

Mike, I don't understand why you would think this thread, would be breaking a rule... is it because the article refers to the "S6" brand?

Truthfully, I think anyone who reads this, would question if they would even want their art associated with the like of these so called "franchises". I know I don't....

Anyways, I leave it up to the powers that be to decide if I've broken some kind of rule...

Education and research is the key to a successful art career...without doing do that...well, imo, you might as well throw paint against a wall and hope some sticks.

Cheers, Barbara

yeah, they have rules on the site that we can't speak of the others and a new rule that can ban those that do it. i don't care one way or the other personally.

but a name is a name, two people have the same name and that's all there is to it. or however he got the name.

---Mike Savad
MikeSavad.com

Here's an oldie but a goodie. Sony Florendo owned two popular restaurants here in Baltimore. Sony Corporation sued to have her remove her name from the restaurants. Sony won! Here's the scoop:

http://articles.baltimoresun.com/1991-03-19/news/1991078124_1_florendo-sony-corp-mrs

The Saatchi Gallery is a London gallery for contemporary art, opened by Charles Saatchi in 1985 in order to exhibit his collection to the public.

Saatchi Online was sold to Demand Media in August 2014, and was rebranded as SaatchiArt.com.

Charles doesn't just have the same name... he is the name... the founder. He made millions selling the company....Saatchi... now he wants them to stop using his name...that's the irony.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saatchi_Gallery

As far as people who all have the same name....Barbara Saint Jean is a good example....LOL.



Cheers, Barbara

This is not so much about the sites as the case IMO.

I can of course be overruled by a higher court, er I mean mod.

ok then... honestly i'm totally confused by this new rule thing. hard to know what one can say or not. i remember one site had a qualifier where it looked for the "bad words" and then banned you for a set amount of time. but it wasn't perfect, and they had human spotters that looked the messages and your own mail to see if you were using letters or rhymes to beat the qualifier. it became rather weird there. then they lifted the rule.


---Mike Savad
MikeSavad.com

Why did he sell in the first place? Weird. I guess he wants to double dip. Thanks for the article.

Edward, I'll give you 17 million reasons why he sold...LOL

It's good reading,

Cheers, Barbara

We are not lifting this rule Mike and it is pretty self explanatory really with common sense used.

I see you saying in a couple of threads now what is and what is not allowed. Best to leave that to the admins now thank you

Now off that topic

I was thinking about this again last night....while trying to sleep. For some reason it's struck a cord.

Here you have a man, who has spent his life, building up his art empire, then decides to sell... Okay, time to retire, do something else...fine, I can understand why he would want out, I've sold businesses too...

but why go back into a court battle to get his name removed? Why didn't he just sell the business without his name in the first place?

I might be wrong, but based on the article I posted from Skate's...it has to do with the bottom "Vanity Artist"....low end market, he doesn't like it. Doesn't want his name associated with it...
But those same artists made his on-line business in the first place....

And what about the artists, by him not wanted to be associated, what does that say for them? The artists who post works on a Demand site, are some how not real artists???

What thoughts do you all have?

Cheers, Barbara
btw, this is not about the competition, it's about the business of art on demand and what it means to the artist... A court battle over a name....

When you sell a business part of the value is "Goodwill" which includes things like the name, reputation, etc. I sure the lawyers covered all of this in the original deal details.