I've looked around for different situations involving DNP and CDNP artists and whether or not the commissioner/owner of their art gets the privilege to circumvent the DNP status. I've seen that the answer is yes, but only if they can provide legally standing proof that they're the sole owner of the art being posted (correct me if I didn't get that right enough).
My question is: Can you have the same privilege if the artist never publicly posted the art? My gut instinct is telling me no, because I think the intention of DNP is to be tied to the artist's work regardless of the availability/publicity, but I'd like to know if that scenario has been covered before.
I guess the purpose of this could be to give character owners another way to have that privilege.