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purchasing a work of art usually does not give you the rights to reproduce the piece.

But purchasing the time for a person to create a work for you generally does give you the rights, as a work for hire. Thus temporary tattoos would be copyrightable, but permanent ones that are created only once should not.

> But purchasing the time for a person to create a work for you generally does give you the rights, as a work for hire

AFAIK, this still needs to be explicitly stated in the agreement/contract. by default the creator always owns the IP they create (in the US). this is why software companies have to explicitly state that they will own the product of your work when they hire you.

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