Seeing is Believing » Legal http://www.mtvisualarts.com/imaging_blog Michael Thornton's Photo Blog Tue, 31 Mar 2009 01:35:16 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 Copyright Application Tutorial http://www.mtvisualarts.com/imaging_blog/copyright-application-tutorial/ http://www.mtvisualarts.com/imaging_blog/copyright-application-tutorial/#comments Sun, 18 May 2008 18:31:19 +0000 admin http://www.mtvisualarts.com/imaging_blog/copyright-application-tutorial/ The American Society of Media Photographers has posted a great tutorial on applying for a copyright on your photographs. Apparently the Copyright office now accepts CDs containing multiple images with your application. This makes it much easier now to apply for a copyright. There is one few per CD.

Even though you have full copyright to your photographs (unless you sign that away of course), sending in a copyright application will give you the ammunition you need in case you ever have to go to court over infringement of your copyrights.

Enjoy.

Michael

]]> http://www.mtvisualarts.com/imaging_blog/copyright-application-tutorial/feed/ 0 Presentation on Copyrights http://www.mtvisualarts.com/imaging_blog/presentation-on-copyrights/ http://www.mtvisualarts.com/imaging_blog/presentation-on-copyrights/#comments Sat, 20 Oct 2007 17:17:35 +0000 admin http://www.mtvisualarts.com/imaging_blog/presentation-on-copyrights/ The Picture Archive Counsel of America’s legal counsel, Nancy E. Wolff, has created a very informative Power Point presentation on copyrights. She also includes a number of cases to show you how the law has been applied. Copyright law is a complex and Ms. Wolff does an excellent job on explaining this topic in simple terms.

I learned a lot and a number of copyright myths were cleared up for me.

Many slides have detailed notes, so don’t forget to read these, especially on the ones depicting case studies.

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