John’s Not So Perfect Picture

Copyright

In these exciting times we live in within the digital age I thought I would just say a couple of things about permissions: Permission is required for all usages of images.

Any use of materials including reproduction, modification, distribution, or reproduction — without the prior permission is very un-cool and prohibited under copyright laws.

Hotlinking, the process of linking directly to an image on an external website without explicit permission, is totally un-cool. Besides that its considered theft of bandwidth and violation of most website and host servers.

What is a copyright? http://www.whatiscopyright.org/
Copyright is a protection that covers published and unpublished literary, scientific and artistic works, whatever the form of expression, provided such works are fixed in a tangible or material form. This means that if you can see it, hear it and/or touch it - it may be protected. If it is an essay, if it is a play, if it is a song, if it is a funky original dance move, if it is a photograph, HTML coding or a computer graphic that can be set on paper, recorded on tape or saved to a hard drive, it may be protected. Copyright laws grant the creator the exclusive right to reproduce, prepare derivative works, distribute, perform and display the work publicly. Exclusive means only the creator of such work, not anybody who has access to it and decides to grab it.