Copyright for Graphic Designers is basically the same rules
as any other type of copyright. It is the right to control the use and
reproduction of your creative works. That could be by any form you used such as
photography, drawings, illustrations, and typography. For images, the rules are
that as soon as you take the picture it belongs to you. You don’t have to
register them but it’s easier to catch people if you do. If you want to protect
the content you put in your designs then you have to register them. If someone
is using the same ideas but in another form it is not infringement, but if they
just copy and paste the content it is infringement. Fonts are another story.
For people to be able to use a certain font face in their design they have to purchase
the license for that font face. Also, if they want to get that work printed the
easiest way to do that is if your printing services has the license for that
font face as well. Intellectual property rights are very straight forward. You cannot
take someone else’s design in your own work. You also cannot take someone else’s
work and change it a little bit and call it your own. You have to create your
own work and not take credit for someone else’s work. To keep this going, you
do not have a right to use everything you find on the Internet. Most things
found have some form of copyright to them. Most people are uneducated in
copyright or don’t care and infringe upon other peoples work anyways. There are
certain sites that allow people to use their work in their designs copyright
free. Those are the sites that we need to be using.
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