Who owns your tattoo? Maybe not you
- Written by Shontavia Johnson, Professor of Intellectual Property Law, Drake University
More than 20 percent of all Americans have at least one tattoo, and for millennials that number jumps to almost 40 percent. What could be more intimately a part of you than a work of body art permanently inked into your skin? You probably assume that the tattoo on your body belongs to you. But, in actuality, somebody else might own your tattoo....