Quote Originally Posted by guinness
i've heard people that go to school say that when you do work for class,to get graded,if it's good enough they will display it,but don't give any credit to the student(s) and if someone buys it,they keep the money.someone said their excuse was that it was done while in school and students don't get to keep any money from any sells while still in school !!wtf??
Yup. Technically any and all art that you produce for a grade/assignment while in school is the property of the school.. their logic I guess being that if not for an assignment, you wouldn't have created the piece.

I ran into a BIG problem with this in my modeling and prototype design class... we were brainstorming ways of improving products we use regularly, so we were assigned to do 30 quick sketches of different things... it could literally be anything we pick up on regular basis. I work on my cars a lot, so I was toying around with different ideas for how to improve toolboxes, jacks, whatever... The next day in class we displayed all 30 of our sketches, and the class picked 5 from the 30 for each class member to improve on. Then we went home and improved on them, and the class picked 1 for people to do as a project. One of my designs that was in the top 5 but not the final one picked I happened to really like, so after the quarter was over, I submitted the design for patenting and then to a couple of different tool companies. Alltrade showed interest in working with the design and bought it from me and I've been working with them on it since. Well I mentioned it to some friends and it got back to our department head. He said that he could have me expelled from the school for selling a design that belonged to them... it wasn't even the one I had chosen to work with for my project, but he said it was theirs. My dad got his attorney involved and SCAD backed off, but it was ridiculous nontheless.

But I must admit.. it is cool to walk through the aisles of a store and see something that was a rendering on your computer a few months before.