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More on Copyrights OK, this may seem like a really stupid question but ... I am interested in taking some pictures and using them to make some postcards and greeting cards to sell locally as a Heart Disease fund-raiser, and also for personal money-making. I read a lot of the comments and questions about how to get the copyright symbol © onto a photo. I assume it goes on the back of the photo? And do any of you have copyright legally, and just put the symbol on yourselves??? Help me out, could ya??
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Damian P. Gadal |
Once you take the picture, you own the copyright ... it's that simple. Registering it is just making the process formal and taking it one step further. hth
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DAVID PAQUIN |
Hi Suzanne, here is the link to the U.S.Copyright site for visual arts...just copy it and paste in your address bar... alot of really good info...and how to...and you can print it out... IF the link doesn't work for some reason just type in your search bar U.S.Copyright Office. Have Fun, David. http://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ40.html
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Sandra J. Colby |
It is true that once you take a photo you own the copyright BUT if you don't officially copyright it and some one uses it all you will get in court is the cost of what it would have cost if they had contracted you. If you get it copyrighted you will recieve the maz for visual theft, about $150,000. I have a friend whose work was used without her consent and instead of the $1,200 she would have charged she got the $150,000.
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