A hairy little issue about copyright

Who owns the art, the painter, or the purchaser? Today, I got a note back from the Copyright Office about whether I actually owned the copyrights to the art in my filing (which included the text I wrote and the art I commissioned and revised with freelance artists)....
New draft cover art

New draft cover art

Hey folks! I’m happy to report that the Kickstarter campaign for the first installment of this fiction universe is off and running, and in fact, it’s 88% funded! I set a modest goal of $421 for the first installment because it’s a meaningful...