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Originally Posted by jlyon1515
Doctor, it most definitely IS copyrighted. Any artist's creation is copyright when they make it. I encourage you to look up common misconceptions of copyright. Even the US Copyright office states that copyright registration of a work is NOT a requirement for copyright protection. (Section 408, first paragraph: http://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap4.html#408)
But you're thinking "well, this is being sold in Italy, so US copyright is void." But then I direct you to the Berne convention ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berne_Convention), an international agreement governing copyright that almost every country is a part of including Italy.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not saving my art isn't a derived work, it most certainly is, but that doesn't mean that they can use my derived work on things they are selling. |
I don't understand how you can copyright something, when you weren't paid by the copyright holder to create the work? If anything you have get permission to use some of the images that have already been copyrighted that you have been using to create "original" art to sell.