I would like to find out who owns the rights to the Spaghetti Western posters. As I would wish to use some of them as book covers. I do not believe in stealing or “ripping-off” that is why I am asking and hopefully. Someone will provide me with the right answer.
Thank you,
Timben
Hey, so here’s the deal, a lot of these posters I believe are the property of the artists, I know that for certain in the case of Renato Casaro.
His site is here: http://www.casaro-renato-art.com/MoviePosters/WesternEng.html
I would recommend looking for the artists signature in the poster, and trying to find if they own a website of some sort that you can contact them at. I’ve only found Casaro’s site however, and I don’t think that many of those artists are still alive.
Here are a few artists names that I’ve been able to find:
Giuliano Nistri
Sandro Symeoni
I wish I could help you out more, but this is a really difficult area.
I’d also suggest a book, “Spaghetti Western Poster Taizen” It has a large collection of poster art from Spaghetti Westerns, however it is in Japanese, it might help you.
who designed which poster, we should have that info in the SWDb’s poster pages