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JStewart
I Walk the Line
Joined: 07/10/08
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JStewart
I Walk the Line
Joined: 07/10/08
Posts: 76
10/30/2010 3:42 pm
I do not know a lot about your music but I do know about your art. I am a software systems engineer by trade so I have to know this stuff. Your art is considered copyrighted the second it is saved to any storage medium. I would suggest if you are serious and lack the means yourself to hire a graphic artist to watermark your artwork so you can prove it is your creation if you ever need to go to court. Basically it works like this, the creator has 5 rights under copyright law:
1. The right to produce the copyrighted work
2. The right to prepare derivative works based upon the work
3. The right to distribute copies of the work to the public
4. The right to perform the copyrighted work publicly
5. The right to display the copyrighted work publicly

If any of those 5 rights are violated you can sue for damages. More info on artwork copyright can be found at:

Bitlaw. (1996). Web Site Legal Issues. Retrieved from http://www.bitlaw.com/internet/webpage.html
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