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“Copyright is a form of protection provided by the laws of the United States to the creators of "original works" including literary works, movies, musical works, sound recordings, paintings, photographs, software, live performances, and television or sound broadcasts.” link
It is important to understand and copyright your work because it gives you, as the creator, the exclusive right to reproduce, display, and sell your work. It is easy to mistake copyrighting with patenting or trade marking but they are all different from one another. Copyrighting only protects your work, while patenting protects your ideas/discoveries, and trade marking protects words, phrases and symbols. It is important to understand the difference between the three because they will come in handy for artists like ourselves.
Copyrighting is important because without it, it gives other people the opportunity to steal and plagiarize your work. Without copyrighting, legally there is no way to prove that the work is yours and they can sell your work without being in the wrong, but if your work is copyrighted and someone steals it, you can easily take them to court and win the case.
As a photographer, I’m really starting to understand the importance of copyright laws because I put a lot of work and effort into creating my photographs and I deserve the right to my photos because after all, it is my work. Nowadays, anyone can easily steal other peoples work with face book and twitter being around but the difference between you getting screwed over and protecting your work is as simple as adding metadata to all your work. With programs like Adobe Bridge, it really is a simple process and it will save you the pain of having to deal with plagiarism. “Under the provisions of the revised copyright law, a photographer owns all rights to his pictures at the moment of creation. That means he and he alone owns the rights to sell, use, distribute copy, publish, alter or destroy his work of art. If you are a photographer, this ownership begins the moment you click the shutter. It continues throughout the life of the artist and 50 years after his or her death. In order to insure you have all the rights the law provides, as well as access to all the legal remedies available, you should have a copyright notice put on all of your published works.” link
Copyrighting is important because without it, it gives other people the opportunity to steal and plagiarize your work. Without copyrighting, legally there is no way to prove that the work is yours and they can sell your work without being in the wrong, but if your work is copyrighted and someone steals it, you can easily take them to court and win the case.
As a photographer, I’m really starting to understand the importance of copyright laws because I put a lot of work and effort into creating my photographs and I deserve the right to my photos because after all, it is my work. Nowadays, anyone can easily steal other peoples work with face book and twitter being around but the difference between you getting screwed over and protecting your work is as simple as adding metadata to all your work. With programs like Adobe Bridge, it really is a simple process and it will save you the pain of having to deal with plagiarism. “Under the provisions of the revised copyright law, a photographer owns all rights to his pictures at the moment of creation. That means he and he alone owns the rights to sell, use, distribute copy, publish, alter or destroy his work of art. If you are a photographer, this ownership begins the moment you click the shutter. It continues throughout the life of the artist and 50 years after his or her death. In order to insure you have all the rights the law provides, as well as access to all the legal remedies available, you should have a copyright notice put on all of your published works.” link
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