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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. |
You used artwork that wasn't yours. Changing its composition doesn't make it yours, does it? (That's not meant to be antagonistic, but a legitimate question.)