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A Primer on © In Everyday Language! 
How is my work ©? When does it start?--- The very second you create anything, it is copyrighted to you. The second you start drawing, the second you push the shutter release, the second you write, it is © to you, and you alone. 
Some Of The Artist's I Admire 
DD worthy
These days it's difficult to find photography on here which really stands out. I mean REALLY stands out, especially since DA isn't attracting the people it once did and so many here have left for other sites. That being said, incredible work can still be found and seen on here & you just have to know where to go to find it.
I thought I would share with all of you work that I would give DD to if I was still a volunteer. These images IMHO all deserve it & are worthy. Amazing work. Inspiring work. Incredible work.
Enjoy!
Playing in traffic as a photographer
Traffic.
It's an important thing. Not that kind of traffic where cars zoom by but the sort of traffic that makes up ones website(s).
Traffic is important. For those of us who make our living in the creative world, it's invaluable. For me, it's a big thing, it tells me how many have seen my photography and allows me to market accordingly. So with that being said, I want to share something with you all.
I uploaded my latest shot to here on DA and on 500px. The picture on DA was uploaded 30 minutes before the photo on 500px. Keep that in mind.
DA----
Views 40
Favourites 21
500px---
Views 81
Favourites 28
I think we know who gets the
Let's have a conversation DA
So I was reading this on DA I laughed. You know it's bad when they have to list "you get a special symbol next to your name that indicates you're a paying subscriber!"
Hey DA let's have a conversation shall we?
DA is where I started online, sort of. Before that I was active in photography communities that were forums all around the internet.It wasn't long though that I found DA and made it my home almost 13 years ago. I've seen the website drastically change, some good and some very bad in that time.
Honestly if I had the cash I would do a hostile takeover of it. I'd buy it and I would change its name to something better suited than
Let's talk about art theft and copyright
It's been awhile hasn't it DA?
Well today I am writing you something to address a little something I recently experienced. Let's call it for what it is, "art theft" and nothing less than that. I was recently made aware that a certain high profile deviant whom I won't mention (because I would like to keep it classy) recently took one of my most popular photographs of an Elk, erased my signature on it and put it up on Tumblr. Cute, eh? Sure if you consider that sort of thing as cute, which I certainly don't.
I went ahead and contacted my lawyer and I also went ahead and sent Tumblr a DCMA takedown notice. Beyond that I also went ahead and co
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Small ad on that I think is important in relation to copyright laws.
I know that what you've done here is just a primer and I commend you on what you've done and perhaps I am going to go a little overboard, but I feel this is important and needs to be said.
In most cases if any work you do for a company, becomes property of that company, be careful of what you sign before you accept a job. Most companies will require you to sign an Intellectual Rights Agreement thus negating any hold or claim you have over ANY thing you do (while at work
). Don't do your buddies website while at work.
On the point of © and ideas; You're right ideas can not be copyrighted. The idea can only be protected under copyright law as a creative piece through literary work ie: ( If I have an idea for a play, I write it out, it's protected as a literary work (and includes Derivative works) or if write I would like to do this for a pizza oven…
. Only the literary work is protected, no one can in turn take what you have written down and reproduce that literary work, however, this does not protect or subject the Idea to Patent Law. There is no stopping someone from taking that Idea and Patenting it, so be careful.
2 Point in case,
Tesla and Marconi. Tesla claimed he had an idea for the radio, due to a fire Tesla lost his notes (convenient?)... in short Marconi beat Tesla to the Patent office thus becoming the inventor of the radio.
Gene Roddenberry (yeah Star Trek) had an idea for a Tri-corder (a device that records various things...), he wrote it down (or rather one of his writers did), as a literary piece it is protected, but under Patent Law it's free game. A company Vital Technologies Corporation has patented and developed (or is developing ) this idea. The same could also be said about modern day cell phones—technically, it was Roddenberry's idea.
My point is; copyright law, patent law, trademark—very complicated, if you have an idea seek help, especially with inventions.
I know that what you've done here is just a primer and I commend you on what you've done and perhaps I am going to go a little overboard, but I feel this is important and needs to be said.
In most cases if any work you do for a company, becomes property of that company, be careful of what you sign before you accept a job. Most companies will require you to sign an Intellectual Rights Agreement thus negating any hold or claim you have over ANY thing you do (while at work
). Don't do your buddies website while at work.On the point of © and ideas; You're right ideas can not be copyrighted. The idea can only be protected under copyright law as a creative piece through literary work ie: ( If I have an idea for a play, I write it out, it's protected as a literary work (and includes Derivative works) or if write I would like to do this for a pizza oven…
. Only the literary work is protected, no one can in turn take what you have written down and reproduce that literary work, however, this does not protect or subject the Idea to Patent Law. There is no stopping someone from taking that Idea and Patenting it, so be careful. 2 Point in case,
Tesla and Marconi. Tesla claimed he had an idea for the radio, due to a fire Tesla lost his notes (convenient?)... in short Marconi beat Tesla to the Patent office thus becoming the inventor of the radio.
Gene Roddenberry (yeah Star Trek) had an idea for a Tri-corder (a device that records various things...), he wrote it down (or rather one of his writers did), as a literary piece it is protected, but under Patent Law it's free game. A company Vital Technologies Corporation has patented and developed (or is developing ) this idea. The same could also be said about modern day cell phones—technically, it was Roddenberry's idea.
My point is; copyright law, patent law, trademark—very complicated, if you have an idea seek help, especially with inventions.