Copyright issue

[shazalhasa]

Copyright exists as soon as you write, draw or paint something. There is no legal requirement for you to stamp your work in order to protect it but with so many being ignorant of the copyright laws, it's recommended that you do put "Copyright © year, your name. All rights reserved."

... says she who found loads of photos of her dogs being sold on ebay

Originally Posted by shazalhasa

Copyright exists as soon as you write, draw or paint something. There is no legal requirement for you to stamp your work in order to protect it but with so many being ignorant of the copyright laws, it's recommended that you do put "Copyright © year, your name. All rights reserved."

... says she who found loads of photos of her dogs being sold on ebay

And do a poor mans copyright if nothing else!

[swarthy]

Originally Posted by shazalhasa

Copyright exists as soon as you write, draw or paint something. There is no legal requirement for you to stamp your work in order to protect it but with so many being ignorant of the copyright laws, it's recommended that you do put "Copyright © year, your name. All rights reserved."

... says she who found loads of photos of her dogs being sold on ebay

I found one of my girls apparently had a litter of all chocolate pups on e-Pupz when she was nursing her 5 week old black and chocolate litter at home

Originally Posted by hobbs2004

Hello! Mark or the mods, or anyone else who knows for that matter. When I post something on here, who has the copyright to what I write?

In particular, I am thinking of the A-Z lists of cat food that I have now found copied in other places. By posting them on this forum, have I forfeited the copyright to them?

Unless there is a statement to the T&C's on this site over whether you relinquish copyright when you put it on the site - then the info you put on here is yours and therefore you can put it anywhere you like.

Unfortunately, the minute you put anything on the web, whether it be photos or text, then it is very difficult to stop anyone else using it - and thus contravening the copyright - whether you put a statement on it or not is irrelevant as shazalhasa points - Copyright is implied.

One way around this which MIGHT make people 'play nicely' is to permit it's use with an acknowledgement and a link to wherever it came from.

With regards to images, put Copyright statements on them - OVER the image - not just on the bottom where it can be removed using a photo editor - unfortunately - this spoils the image with the advent of screen printing even embedding in Flash doesn't prevent people stealing the these days