I have been looking into protection of copyright for logos and custom art work on the websites we design. I was under the impression that if you made it, it is yours and no-one else can use it. This of course is all well and good but how do you find out if someone as stolen something?
It seems you have to pay to register for copyright (the little c), is it worth doing this?
You dont pay for copyright, you pay for trademark protection. You get copyright protection automatically as the author of the work. There are private copyright registers, but it's not official. Personally if you want to protect a logo, then trademark it. Copyright stuff: Intellectual Property Office - Copyright registers Trademark Stuff Intellectual Property Office - Trade marks It can be hard to enforce, and we had an issue of someone copying our protected logo's. A lot of it is down to where the offence took place, and what law they abide by, versus the hassle/legal expense of chasing it up. In theory you can send a takedown request to an ISP, but a lot will want to see an written legal instruction before they act, or at least that's what I've found.
“I have been looking into protection of copyright for logos and custom art work on the websites we design. I was under the impression that if you made it, it is yours and no-one else can use it.” As sjr4x4 stated copyright is automatically assigned to the creator of any artistic or literary work, you don't have to ask for it and you certainly don't have to pay for it! “This of course is all well and good but how do you find out if someone as stolen something?” If the logos are online it may be possible to conduct a search for duplicates and copies using either 'Google search' or 'Tineye' “It seems you have to pay to register for copyright (the little c), is it worth doing this?” Using the (c) symbol may look good but it isn't really necessary. Alan |
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