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A friend of mine recently had an issue with a buyer where she was asked to draw their OCs, only to have the buyer strip the image of her signature and claim it as their own arguing that it is their property.

What rights does the artist have and what rights does the designer hold? I always thought that the owner of the characters holds the design rights and should be credited, but the artist holds the rights to the piece of art they created. Is that right?

Whoever created the work holds the copyright, and that copyright lasts until the artist has been dead for 70 years