Harnser Posted March 10, 2010 Report Share Posted March 10, 2010 Does any body know off hand if posters on this forum are covered by copy right ? Harnser . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shuck. Posted March 10, 2010 Report Share Posted March 10, 2010 You're not going to write a book about your voyage into the zombie infested Nazi bunker are you.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bleeh Posted March 10, 2010 Report Share Posted March 10, 2010 Does any body know off hand if posters on this forum are covered by copy right ? Harnser . My understanding is this. On the one hand: Copyright is the automatic right of the creator from the point that the first 'recorded' the work in a tangible manner. In this case, from the point you type it in on the keyboard. So this would mean that as the 'creator' of the post, you are the copyright owner. However.... In posting on the forum, you will have accepted the terms that this type of publication implies. In posting you are accepting that your content will be published by the site owner, and also that the site owner has the right to edit or delete your post as he sees fit. A bit mroe detail would be of use. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-oXo- Posted March 10, 2010 Report Share Posted March 10, 2010 A media forum I visit has this posted about the subject not sure if it is any use to you. 1st - a couple lessons, the first in copyright law -(this can be found at: http://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ1.html#hsc ) HOW TO SECURE A COPYRIGHT Copyright Secured Automatically upon Creation The way in which copyright protection is secured is frequently misunderstood. No publication or registration or other action in the Copyright Office is required to secure copyright. (See following Note.) There are, however, certain definite advantages to registration. See "Copyright Registration." Copyright is secured automatically when the work is created, and a work is "created" when it is fixed in a copy or phonorecord for the first time. "Copies" are material objects from which a work can be read or visually perceived either directly or with the aid of a machine or device, such as books, manuscripts, sheet music, film, videotape, or microfilm. "Phonorecords" are material objects embodying fixations of sounds (excluding, by statutory definition, motion picture soundtracks), such as cassette tapes, CDs, or LPs. Thus, for example, a song (the "work") can be fixed in sheet music (" copies") or in phonograph disks (" phonorecords"), or both. If a work is prepared over a period of time, the part of the work that is fixed on a particular date constitutes the created work as of that date. This basically means that the second something goes onto its medium (paper, canvas, computer, whatever) that it gains a copyright to the creator. This however typically will need some proof of orrigination & date - I keep a personal invision board that I post all mine to, thus gaining a "DATE OF ORRIGIN" so no one can say that they have an earlier coppy - that in combination with the orriginal PSD (or whatever) & orrig paper art if you had any (not needed) is MORE then enough proof to establish a copyright. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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