The copyright to original artwork typically belongs to the artist who created it, unless the artist has signed over the copyright to the person or company who commissioned the work. This situation is more likely to arise when an artist produces original artwork for businesses and corporations, rather than for private buyers. To qualify for copyright protection, artwork must be original and fixed in a tangible object such as paper, canvas, or a digital medium. It does not need to have artistic merit to be protected by copyright. The Visual Artist Rights Act of 1990 (VARA) gives artists certain rights of attribution and disavowal, even after the ownership of the actual tangible work of art has been transferred to a collector or institution. However, VARA only applies to certain types of visual art, such as paintings, drawings, prints, sculptures, and photographs of recognized stature existing in a single copy or a limited edition of 200 signed and numbered copies or fewer.