I am taking a stand for all image makers who post their work online. So to all of you assholes who think that just because it’s on the internet it’s a free for all… THINK AGAIN! Saving an image on your computer
According to the Canadian International Property Law Office (CIPO): “Copyright applies to all original literary, dramatic, musical and artistic works. These include books, other writings, music, sculptures, paintings, photographs, films, plays, television and radio programs, and computer programs. Copyright also applies to other subject matter, which includes sound recordings (such as records, cassettes or compact discs), performer’s performances and communication signals.”
“Generally, the owner of the copyright is:
-the creator of the work;
-the employer – if the work was created in the course of employment unless there is an agreement to the contrary;
-the person who commissions a photograph, portrait, engraving or print for valuable
consideration (which has been paid) unless there is an agreement to the contrary;
-some other party, if the original owner has transferred the rights.
So as an artist, I’ll let all of you lame assholes who rip off the work of others on the internet that you’re breaking the law! It does not matter if you alter it afterward, IT’S STILL STEALING! —My art is my bread and butter
This article appears in Sep 9-15, 2010.
Don’t post it online then. Problem solved.
If you die , will your photoshopped pictures of the 10th Doctor getting cornholed by The Master increase in value?
Just askin’
guess what o.p., i just saved your post, and will distribute it all over the place, and there is not one damn thing you can do about it. iof their is no name on anything that is put up, there is no liability on the part of the person sharing or getting. only material that iss copyrighted, or otherwise protected, comes under this blanket of legislation. if no name, or anom., then it is fair game for anyone.
watermarks don’t help?
Pathetic bitch from another failed NSCAD student. If it’s online, it’s free for the taking. You can easily use watermarks or use programming that doesn’t allow users to copy and save your images from websites. Get with the program!
Creative Commons Licensing, check it out http://creativecommons.ca/index.php?p=lear…
Pavillion’s got it right.
sebastian_… I’d like to know how exactly you present content on the internet that isn’t “copyable”. There are streaming flash solutions to present images but this doesn’t stop one from capturing an image (low res) off the screen so please, educate us, tells us how to “use programming that doesn’t allow users to copy and save your images from websites”.
kay, I think sebastian might be referring to this “robot.txt” file as discussed in this article:
http://artcafe.net/?p=296
It is simply a text file, so it isn’t really “programming” per se, but that seems to be something artists can use to protect their artwork.
I have actually been on sites where right-clicking anything won’t work. A message just pops up and says you’re not allowed to take anything off their site. But I don’t think that works if someone just uses “print screen”.
Print Screen allows for pretty low-res picture that it won’t be possible for a full-size reprint, so that kind of helps with art “theft” as people call it.
Unless you claim it as your own work or try to use it for profit… what’s the big deal? 11 yrs in the ‘art world’ taught me that. No biggie, just make sure you have copyrighted before hand it (we used to mail copies of our own work to ourselves before showing it/using it in anyway ie: at school, in a portfolio we had to send out to studios. The envelope had a date stamp on it. We called it ‘The Poor Man’s Copyright’. 🙂 Would think the same thing would work with eMail. Or not, I am a fuckin’ idiot you know. 🙂
Don’t worry OP, the INTERNET POLICE will save you.
Sorry, that first line should read: ‘Unless THEY claim it as THEIR own work or try to use it for profit…’ I told you I was a fuckin’ idiot… actually someone else told me I was. 😉
I once did a cover art for a short story for an acquaintance which was printed and sold at local bookstores, and then the publishing company later on had another artist copy my art for reprinting and republishing of the short story. I don’t know if this violates copyright, but I was disappointed and a bit offended that a) the company did not ask any permission from me to do this, and b) the artist didn’t think it was wrong to copy someone else’s work and publish it as hers/his. I would have preferred it if they got the artist to create something that was original, not a copy of mine.
Or at least paid you for it. This is where the ‘Poor man’s’ Copyright would have come in handy.
I never got paid a cent for it, which didn’t bother me much. But if they thought that it was so bad they needed to replace my artwork, why didn’t they just create something original? It made no sense at all, and I think it was an insult to the artist too (the other person, not me. I don’t consider myself an artist).
It is odd. Obviously they didn’t think the idea was bad, maybe THEY thought (I have not seen the artwork in question) that it needed ‘tightening up’, which is a term tossed around a lot in certain areas of the art world. It is also never explained. We just pretend we know what it means… or at least I did when I was working in it! “BR, tighten up this drawing will you?” “You bet Chief!” (cut to me redrawing from a slightly different angle and using a different type of pencil)
rosie, you are far from being an idiot, and btw, how did things go on sat., sorry i missed out. but this weekend is free, and will be heading there, if mine col. be working the day. mail me.
Didn’t make it either LS… problem with the car! Booooo! I have a course in H-fax next weekend, don’t know start/stop times, but maybe we can all pull it together then.
And I am an idiot… kay told me so 😉 >giggle<
Any Saturday folks; I’m there from 10 until 9 at night.
Hey Painey – what are the chances of you and the Bear leaving the kids in charge for an hour or so and heading downtown for a noontime pint. Bitcher’s Summit – Rawk!
Awwwright– Summit, Summit, Summit!
a little later in the season perhaps general^^
Nice– a field promotion!
i could attend sooner but it would be sans bear, he probably would want me to leave him out of the freak world. he gets enough of the bizarro world t’home…heehaw
Not bad Indeed. I’ve been a Colonel, a General, an Admiral, a Tsar, a Pope , a Zombie Slayer. LTWWB is a true meritocracy >; ).
We’ll hammer out details later in the week, but I would say Open Invite to Bitch Buds.
Now, I’ll have to pull in some favors to arrange a platoon of Blue Berets to keep the peace. Screeee!
providing direction to search engines via a robots.txt file MIGHT keep your images from appearing in Google Image search results but this does nothing to prevent your work from being copied.
The right-click of a mouse can be disabled on a web page, yes, but the source code interpreted by your browser, then rendered (locally) to allow you to see the page, CANNOT be hidden and shown or executed at the same time. Each image you see in your browser is first copied from the internet (downloaded) to a temp folder and THEN it’s displayed on your screen.
“print-screen shots” render at 72 dpi while 300 dpi is standard printing resolution. If the image is large enough one could shrink it to create a photo quality hard copy. Usually web images are too small to be useful for print but they’re easily reposted on the net.
The “poor man’s copyright” exists by default (the moment you create “the work”) in Canada. You don’t even have to formally register your work nor send it to yourself via registered mail to see your copyright observed. All you have to do is be able to prove what you created and when. Contract law says a witness or two will do but registered mail to yourself (containing a copy, left unopened) serves as a time stamp. Formal registration with CIPO will run you $30 or so per work. Realize, when you register the work with CIPO a copy of the actual work is NOT collected. Your registration simply timestamps the work. You can, however, send a copy of the work to the Canadian Archive so the copyright (timestamp) can be matched with the actual work.
notsoNTH, your story sounds like a clear case of infringement but I’m willing to bet there’s a contract with a publisher or the author that absolved you of your right to collect a “mechanical royalty” but odds are the credit to you must stay intact… hard to say. What deal did you make with the author? With the publisher? In the absence of a contract there is no deal and that work is YOURS. Nobody has right to reproduce it in part or in-full without permission UNLESS you’ve submitted to Creative Commons. Copyright infringement can exist with or without a revenue stream attached.
No, I’m not a lawyer, just a person with very specific interests in the topic of copyright.
Bottom line, copyright infringement is a complaint-driven system.
TBR, there’s the B&W of it to keep considering…
Just sharing with Newt and OP what we did when we were in school and starting out in the working world. Held up too, as long as the envelopes weren’t open. One classmate actually had to use it once.
ivan are you as lost as i am? confused laggard rawk
Don’t worry painey… I’m lost as well… but that really isn’t any different from the way I am in daily life.
Hell Yeah! I joke about learning enough about photoshop to do pictures of the Countess exploding at the mooring mast at Lakehurst (Oh, and the humanity) or making me the Dude in the White hat standing next to Lee Harvey Oswald – but it’s never gonna happen.
Interweb’s for lookin at nekkid ladies , researching German Army camouflage schemes and breaking wise with my bitch buds. Beyond that, I’m as Luddite as it comes. Rooooooooooooo!
I got use Brian Griffin’s joke about “think of a book as an Ipod made from a dead tree” on a couple of hipsters on Saturday, but I don’t think they got it. >; )
i have videos of my corbies but i need to wait til the bear gets back to upload…he is less of a luddite than me. my official tech support aka the boy is in another province…must learn myself. good winter project
it’s all that dog hair right rosie? teehee
and slobber and barf and poop… yes, painey, yes it is!
aah you haven’t lived til you’ve got mastiff drool on ya. that stuff has a life of it’s own
True painey, true! Axel, 160 lb mastiff was the first puppy I met at the daycare… drool machine! Then there’s Adam the 150 lb. great dane who thinks it’s HILARIOUS to come up beside you and shake his head, launching super thick and sticky goober all over you. His owner affectionately call him ‘Shit-head’, we call him the Goobersaurus!
haha, luckily my longhound only drools out his nose^^
Hi kay, thanks for all the info. I guess I should have paid more attention to the whole thing but I never did. lol Maybe one day I will get back into painting and then if anyone ever shows interest in what I do, then maybe I’ll worry about copyrights. Until then…EWWWWWW to dog drools.