How can I copyright my pictures
2007-03-09 06:36:33 · 4 answers · asked by uncletrumpet 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Visual Arts ➔ Other - Visual Arts
Before 1978 your art had to be published to be copyrighted, after that all your art work is automatically copyrighted by the artist for all of their life + 70 years.
Remember that many persons on the web don't respect that. Watermarking your pictures with a visible mark will slow the theft down. My avatars is not the greatest works of art and still some of them were stolen. Today I slab a huge watermark right across them before I put them up. Watermarks that is on top of detailed areas and with different hue and saturation is harder for thieves to remove, but they also "disturb" the picture more than the ones put in a corner.
2007-03-09 18:36:43 · answer #1 · answered by --- 4 · 6⤊ 0⤋
If you're posting them online why not put the text that goes over the picture to stop people copying them as their own. So people can veiw them but not use them.
2007-03-09 14:40:27 · answer #2 · answered by Bex 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Watermark your work, also there are ways to prevent it from being copied from your site that are part of your web programming-security. Check into that- but you other answerers are right- technically its already protected if you ever wanted to take it to court etc. I'd protect myself anyway.
2007-03-12 12:12:39 · answer #3 · answered by ARTmom 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
if their yours, they are copyrighted by you, automatically. It's law.
2007-03-09 19:27:11 · answer #4 · answered by ilikecheese 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋