How do I copy right protect my drawings, or paintings?

Answer 1

Need to go to a copyright attorney for that.

Answer 2

Step:
1. Assigin a Creative Commons license but do not allow redistribution nor commercial use.
2. Use Digimarc watermarking (it's like the one in Photoshop, but a rather proper version). It's "invisible" yet can be tracked so you know who's ripping your work. Sadly, this service costs money so you better balance out how much you'll lose/gain if you use it.
3. Put on a visible watermark, or even more than one, over your image. Brutal, but rip-proof. With Digimarc you don't need that much though. :D


In any case you've been ripped, use one of those free Cease and Desist forms online.

Answer 3

Besides getting an actual copyright (check out http://www.copyright.gov/ for information) a lawyer once told me that an inexpensive, but not always foolproof way, would be to save your information to a disc or make photocopies of it and date it. Then you would send the disc or copies to yourself and keep the envelope sealed in case a problem would arise where someone would try to use your work as their own or not credit you.

Answer 4

The most inexpensive way would be to sign your name and then below write Copyright 2006. You could register your name as a trademark.

Answer 5

you should be fine as is. if anyone tries to use your stuff for profit send them a bill or scare them with a lawyer. most people will back down quickly with a writen threat.

Answer 6

i suggest that you embed a watermark

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watermark_%28disambiguation%29

theres a few different types, depending on what type of image you have.

Answer 7

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