copywriting images
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- nsa
how do you all feel about it? and morover, does anyone do it, with their illustrations etc? i've often kept the idea of, if soeone is to bite my work, then its somewhat of an honor (a fuckin headache if they get paid for it) however, i am the one that can regenerate and make something stronger and better again, while all they will do is bite.
but i fluctuate on this opinion and am more and more curious as i'm selling shirts etc... should i just incorporate myself?
ahhh! so confused...
- ribit0
what's your question exactly? If your work is copyrightable... it's automatically covered by international copyright law. You don't need to do a thing.
You can add a copyright notice , which just indicates your intent to protect your rights, nothing more...
as for incorporating... thats a whole other story...
- unknown0
at the end of the day you have to ask yourself 'is it worth it?' - I mean is it that you have something thats so original and groundbreaking that it could earn you a pile of cash? or is it just illustrations/designs that just fit in with the zeitgeist and could really have been done by anybody else, likelihood is that by the time you've spent a fortune in court arguing over your streamlined illustration the times have moved on any nobody gives a fuck anyhow.
how original can a t-shirt be, and how important is that in the grand scheme? Take a hint from opensource programmers - take what you want, change it for the better, give it back to everybody else, that progress.
Thats just one of many sides of a very deep issue of which I am not even sure where I stand haha!
- nsa0
i totally agree with both of you. i mean, it seems to me, that your art is in you...and the whole process of going through copywriting seems a bit gratuidus. the originality of artwork, design and style are debatable, and im not claiming any...not to say that my work is a as bland as a saltine cracker either. it was curiosity sparked by a friend who kept saying i should really do that shit. and then i started to wonder...
but ribit, what do you mean "if your work is copywritable"? are you just saying but on a c in a circle, self stamping it with a copyright. blah blah blah, as i said above i'm not some pompus designer who is so worried about anything, just curious of this process and its relavance.
in the meantime, preparing screens and getting ready for some travel...
- ribit0
You are automatically covered by copyright law... you don't have to do anything.
You generally add copyright notices to work to inform people that this is commercial work, and you intend to defend those rights (but it's not required)...
There are some standards on the copyright notice layout... but generally you just have 'Copyright © 2003 Acme, Inc.'
'All Rights Reserved' is also no longer neccessary under law...
- nsa0
very useful link ribit. good lookin out. =)