The International Copyright Law, in short means:
- If an artist sells a piece of art, you may not redistribute it as you are depriving the creator of revenue.
- If an artist publishes their art for free, you may distribute it under privileges of fair dealing / fair use as long as the image is not altered and any watermarks or identifiers remain present on the image.
If you are an artist and you publish your work for free on the Internet then you must take whatever measures you desire to protect your work, but still the artwork is open to free share.
Not all requests to appear in DNP will be taken unless the reposted art is paid. Otherwise fill the DMCA notification for each work that is needed to be removed and send to us via email.
Fair use:
"Fair use is a doctrine in that allows limited use of copyrighted material without requiring permission from the rights holders"
"Notwithstanding the provisions of sections 17 U.S.C. § 106 and 17 U.S.C. § 106A, the fair use of a copyrighted work, including such use by reproduction in copies or phonorecords or by any other means specified by that section, for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching (including multiple copies for classroom use), scholarship, or research, is not an infringement of copyright.". Taken from:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_use
Authorship:
"Works for hire. If a work is made "for hire" within the meaning of the Copyright Act, the employer or commissioning party, who paid for the work and took the economic risk of it, is deemed the author for copyright purposes and is the initial owner of the copyright". Taken from:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_copyright_law#Authorship
In simple words, the work doesn't belong to the artist, and the comissioner is the original owner.
See also:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Work_for_hire
Sources:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_law
http://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ1.pdf
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