Advice - royalties or buying art for products

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A friend and I are starting a business making and selling pinback buttons. There are going to be two halves to the business - a printing service, and an online store (which might also sell at conventions). The two aren’t connected, so an artist who only uses the printing service wouldn’t be mentioned in the store. The store is the part we need advice about. We want to carry a large variety of button designs, and to do that, we need to know a fair way to buy or pay royalties for the art.

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