Learn to Copyright your Photograph
ART - Procedure for Copyrighting photographs
Your photos are copy righted by default but to get damages it must be registered. Do put a copyright on your web site.
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ART - Register with the US Copyright Office
VARA - Visual Artists Rights Act
VARA - The Visual Artists Rights Act LAW
The Statute 17 USC section 106A Law protecting certain rights of the artist's works.
A “work of visual art” is--
- (1) a painting, drawing, print, or sculpture, existing in a single copy, in a limited edition of 200 copies or fewer that are signed and consecutively numbered by the author, or, in the case of a sculpture, in multiple cast, carved, or fabricated sculptures of 200 or fewer that are consecutively numbered by the author and bear the signature or other identifying mark of the author; or
- (2) a still photographic image produced for exhibition purposes only, existing in a single copy that is signed by the author, or in a limited edition of 200 copies or fewer that are signed and consecutively numbered by the author.
VARA is about the Rights of Attribution and Integrity.
- The artist has the right to be known as the author of the work and that his or her name cannot be used as the author of any work he or she did not create.
- The right to have his or her name removed from a work he or she created in the event that the work is distorted or otherwise changed as indicated when the process of doing so would be harmful to the artist’s honor and reputation.
- The right to prevent the indicated acts provided that those acts harm the artists honor or reputation.
A “work of visual art” does not include the following kinds of art:
- Any poster, map, globe, chart, technical drawing, diagram, model, applied art, motion picture or other audiovisual work, book, magazine, newspaper, periodical, data base, electronic information service, electronic publication, or similar publication.
- Any merchandising item or advertising, promotional, descriptive, covering, or packaging material or container.
- Any work made for hire.
- Any work not subject to copyright protection under this title.
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CULTURAL COMMONS
COPYRIGHT LAW includes information and ideas about copyleft and the cultural commons.
Find out how this affects art and culture among researchers, practitioners, administrators, students, scholars, artists, policymakers, and the general public.
Using Scanned Images for Webpages
To use scanned images, you need the direct permission of the host/author to do that. If you find information on a government site, I think that that information is public domain. But if you find images on personal homepages/non-governmental sites, you must have direct permission from that author to use their images, unless they've posted otherwise. Citing where the images were found is not enough to use other people's images. Understand Copyright
CEO Bill Sagan - Wofgang's Vault - Copyright
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VOLUNTEER LAWYERS FOR THE ARTS
Volunteer Lawyers are in Every State, click the link to get a first impression of how many you can find and where you live.
OCEAN STATE LAWYERS FOR THE ARTS (OSLA), which was founded in 1984 as the Rhode Island affiliate of a nationwide network of non-profit public service organizations dedicated to providing legal assistance to visual artists, actors, performers, theatre companies, museums, dance troupes, artists' groups and any other artists or arts organizations in need of help regarding contracts, copyrights, trademarks, tax-exempt status, collection of accounts and any other arts-related problems. See David M. Spatt
