How do you get a Copyright for your art?Since lately people stole my sprites and now I want to copyright my art.I Also want to know if it is ok for a fake copyright?Like i just put copyright there to scare people?
How do you get a Copyright for your art?
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As I gather it (in the US, your region may vary), creative work is implicitly copyrighted at its creation. You don't have to do anything.
However, it can be worthwhile to mark it as "(C) 2005 I2agnarok" or whatever, so it's easier to prove that you were the original creator.
AFIACT, if you actually register a copyright with the copyright office, then you have further legal advantadges– you can theoretically sue for triple damages.
However, IANAL.
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Oh ok.Also you were saying that its ok to put Fake ones like (C) 2005 I2agnarok?
BTW its L2 -
http://www.copyright.gov/help/faq/faq-who.html#minor
Minors may claim copyright, and the Copyright Office issues registrations to minors, but state laws may regulate the business dealings involving copyrights owned by minors. For information on relevant state laws, consult an attorney.
http://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ1.html#wccc
The copyright in the work of authorship immediately becomes the property of the author who created the work.
http://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ1.html#hsc
I think it's okay to use
mark even without legally registered. (Not 100% sure...) Though, if you're trying to copyright fan art, I don't think it'll work because you'll be violating copyright there ^^; -
why don't you just place the copyright beside your sprites. this way they can't remove it that easily.
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As the others have stated, you get copyright the moment you create the artwork. So it's legal to put copyright notice (copyright 2005 l2agnarok) regardless of whether you have registered it or not. You don't actually need it though. As long as your country signs the Berne convention, all works are protected by copyright. Btw,
doesn't have legal force. It's either "copyright" or Â.But the law doesn't do much to protect works with no commercial value. To prove that you own a copyright to something, normally people with commercial/published works would register it to the copyright office (or your local version of it).
One more thing to note, if the "sprites" you're talking about are sprites of existing characters (like for example Luffy and Zoro sprites), you don't own copyright of them even if you made them, because you would be infringing copyright in the first place. Yes, fan art and fan fiction are actually copyright violations; it's just that most people turn a blind eye.
More on copyrights: http://www.templetons.com/brad/copymyths.html
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I think that anything you've created is already your own copyright, but the best way to stop people from stealing your art is to put your name Â
(and date if you want to). You also may want to put the copyright on top of your picture (not in the center, but for instance a leg or somewhere to cover a bit), might want to save your pic first without the copyright in case.The only problem I see in that is that people could cut it off or erase it, so I think that the best way to deal with that is to put a date or put it somewhere, where it's not obvious. That reminds me that if you use an art account site (like deviantart) then you can always compare the date of when you posted the pic as proof that it is yours (when comparing the date of the art stealers pic).
edit: This isn't too related to art but it does have to do with copyright, is that some online shop sites (like j-list) have a transparent (probably using some photoshop) copyright text on top of the pic, so theres no way a person could erase/color over it.
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Using a programme like photoshop or the GIMP, try setting the text tool opacity to like 30 or 50 percent, so it just discolours the underlying work without hiding it totally.
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Shylu said that fanart is a copyright violation,So in other words i cant put copyright on it huh?but not all of them are fanart so yeah..
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Using a programme like photoshop or the GIMP, try setting the text tool opacity to like 30 or 50 percent, so it just discolours the underlying work without hiding it totally.
What is this GIMP you speak of?
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The GNU Image Manipulation Programme.
A sort of weird but moderately powerful freeware image-editor for UNIX and Windows.
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it's the alternative to photoshop, very nice.
Anyway, that thing Bounty mentioned is called a watermark, it works wonders, if you need further instruction on how to create one, please PM me and I would be happy to help you.
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The GNU Image Manipulation Programme.
A sort of weird but moderately powerful freeware image-editor for UNIX and Windows.
Is it free and how good is it?
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It's free. Hence the word 'freeware'. It's pretty powerful, but with a fairly steep learning curve.
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Shylu said that fanart is a copyright violation,So in other words i cant put copyright on it huh?but not all of them are fanart so yeah..
Im sorry to revvive my old thread but can I put copyright on sprites that are fanart?
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To quote a friend of mine:
siiiiigh, this sort of thing drives me nuts. if people don't want their work all over the internet, don't put it on the internet.
Um.. yeah. Putting stuff online pretty much makes it free game for anything. That's just how it is. u__u
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if it's fanart of a game, an anime, or someone elses work of art, no you can not put a copyright on them.
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In short if you didn't create it then you can't put copyright on it or you'll take the chance of being sued or just plan flammed by people
 