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Do I Need a Copyright - Copyright information tips and laws for graphic designers and web design. Copyrights protect your creative property and fall into five basic categories...find out what these categories are.
All About Copyright - We recommend that as soon as you become the Copyright owner of your commissioned designs that you take measures to prove you are the owner of the copyright - just in case a dispute should ever arise that requires you prove this in a court of law.
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Frequently Asked Questions about Copyright - The Copyright Office offers introductory answers to frequently asked questions about copyright, registration, and services of the Office.
Ten Big Myths about Copyright - Note that this is an essay about copyright myths. It assumes you know at least what copyright is -- basically the legal exclusive right of the author of a creative work to control the copying of that work. If you didn't know that, check out my own brief introduction to copyright for more information.
Crash Course Tutorial - The Copyright Crash Course Online Tutorial will help you learn about how ownership of copyrighted materials works, what is fair use and when and how to get permission to use someone else's materials. The Tutorial pages include links to pages in the Copyright Crash Course and to copyright law.
Chilling Effects Clearinghouse: Copyright - The "Copyright" topic area includes discussions of traditional copyright, fair use, reverse engineering, and the new additions to copyright of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). Under DMCA, we discuss the ISP safe harbor and its conditions (notice and takedown), and the anticircumvention provisions of section 1201.
Graphic Arts Guild : Legalities #3 - Is graphic design copyrightable? What can be done about a “Napster” like web site for artwork? Is it safe to publish illustrations of famous people?
Copyrights and Wrongs - A basic, easy to understand guide to copyrights. You've heard about copyrights and you have this nagging little feeling that, whatever they are, they might just apply to the things you and others have created for the Web or the Internet.
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