BobN
Well-known member
Anything original that you write is automatically copyrighted in the USA.
Copyright was intended to be for a limited time with limited rights as an incentive to advance the arts and sciences.
In the 1990's the law was drastically changed with the Copyright Term Extension Act.
An excellent example of the copyright issues written in comic book form can be viewed or purchased here:
http://www.law.duke.edu/cspd/comics/
There are also additional thing that muddle up the copyright issue such as the DMCA, and the up and coming ACTA.
The ACTA international agreement is being drafted in secret meetings.
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100111/2149377710.shtml
One thing that you can do as an artist is to publish your work with a Creative Commons license. This way, you can control what you want.
http://creativecommons.org/about/licenses/
The defender of "fair use" is the Electronic Frontier Foundation:
http://www.eff.org/
Copyright was intended to be for a limited time with limited rights as an incentive to advance the arts and sciences.
In the 1990's the law was drastically changed with the Copyright Term Extension Act.
An excellent example of the copyright issues written in comic book form can be viewed or purchased here:
http://www.law.duke.edu/cspd/comics/
There are also additional thing that muddle up the copyright issue such as the DMCA, and the up and coming ACTA.
The ACTA international agreement is being drafted in secret meetings.
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100111/2149377710.shtml
One thing that you can do as an artist is to publish your work with a Creative Commons license. This way, you can control what you want.
http://creativecommons.org/about/licenses/
The defender of "fair use" is the Electronic Frontier Foundation:
http://www.eff.org/