This is a clip from the podcast Adventures in Design about copyrights. It clarifies quite a bit about copyright law, how to copyright your work affordably, and it debunks various myths about copyrights. It’s extremely enlightening.
It also goes into detail about what to do and what not to do when corporate art theft strikes, and how to make copyright law work to your advantage. Furthermore, it explains how to approach and make use of lawyers in such situations. I think a lot of artists, even professionals, operate under the assumption that the legal system is beyond us – that our woes are either too trivial for lawyers to bother with or too expensive to follow through on. That’s self-defeating and largely untrue, though. As it pertains to copyright law, the legal system is at your disposal and is designed to work for you.
Oh, how I wish I knew these things a couple of years ago when I was dealing with a couple of cases of corporate art theft and was feeling hopeless about it. Because I was repeating that over and over to myself as I listened to this, I figured I ought to share it.
(Warning: the discussion in the link gets just a little bit crude in spots)
important enough to be reblogged on my art blog :D.
“How to affordably copyright your art & how to deal with copyright infringement” with Jeral Tidwell
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