My Art... *vent warning*

How do I get Copyright?

Under most national laws and international copyright treaties you receive a copyright automatically in any original work as you make it. Registration may be required to exercise some rights, like commencing a lawsuit. Copyright does NOT protect ideas. Copyright protects the expression of ideas or the ways in which an idea is materially placed or expressed in the work.

What is Copyright Infringement?

To simplify this question, copyright infringement occurs when you do certain things with a creative work which someone else produced without first getting the proper permission.

Some examples of copyright infringement (this is only a partial listing) can include:

• Placing someone else's photograph or creative work online without proper permission.
• Using a creative work commercially without permission.
• Adapting someone else's creative work found in one medium to another medium, such as making a book into a movie or a photograph into a painting.
• Modifying or editing a creative work without proper permission.