All my work is copyrighted and may not (UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES) be used for anything this includes, but is not limited to tags/layouts/signatures/websites/profit OR nonprofit, it may not be used without my explicit written permission! USING THIS WORK WITHOUT PERMISSION IS COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT! Don’t believe it? Read the Copyright Information Links below!
♥ What is Copyright?
♥ Official Government Copyright Information
♥ R.I.G.H.T.S For Artists
Public domain - not! When visiting a web site, it is so easy to click and save with a mouse button when one sees a graphic image that one likes, or to view the source code and copy part of or all of the HTML coding because one “likes the way this or that was done” or one “wants a similar layout”, or to copy original writings because “that person expresses this or that so well”. The general (and incorrect) notion is that anything that is on the internet is public domain and may be taken without permission from the creator/owner. Some people actually think (incorrectly) that just because bits of web pages may be stored in one’s cache, or because certain browsers allow one to do “file save as” moves or anything similar one may use such material as one wishes. This is false.
Just because your driveway is not inside of your house, is it in the public domain? Does that give anybody off the street the right to stay on your driveway without your permission, even if they can see it from the street, or easily access it? The same basic principle applies to material published on the internet. Material found on the web may be copied freely only if the information is created by the (i) federal government, (ii) if the copyright has expired or (iii) the copyright has been abandoned by the holder. Therefore, “internet” and “public domain” are not synonymous. Any work published on the internet is not automatically placed it in the public domain, unless the material in question complies with one or more of the characteristics mentioned.
Using my works for your personal tubes, graphics, sig tags, tagging, yahoo/aol/msn groups, etc. does NOT FALL UNDER FAIR USE! If you think it does, RE-READ the “Fair Use Act”! Unless you are using my work for educational purposes or to critique/review it, or its being used in a classroom, you simply cannot use it w/out properly crediting, even if you were using it properly you would STILL have to abide by copyright laws!
There is NOTHING in the Fair Use Act that says you can use it for tag making and/or remove my watermark/name, and put your name on it. It doesn’t matter if you are not making money off of it, it doesn’t matter if YOU personally did not remove my signature/watermark, YOU are still the one who is using it, and that is illegal, playing stupid will not justify art thievery. You MUST credit the original artist, which is me, without doing so, people assume you made it, and you didn’t. This could be costing me both exposure AND money.
If you do not credit the artist for copyrighted materials you steal. Its that simple. And yes, my work is all protected by copyright.
contact me for infomation about using my work with permission.
( this description of the copyright rules was written by S.Mckivergan. please visit her personal website www.cosmosue.net and enjoy her beautiful arts )
