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Tony Auffret

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Why, I ask myself, do people post images to the gallery which are spoilt by having a copyright notice plastered across them. If they are that worried about copyright then don't post on an open site. If they genuinely want feedback, which I doubt, then why slap a hugely distracting notice across the image? It is free advertising of course, but the ridiculous thing about this morning's spoilt posting is that I can go onto the artists website and download the image without the copyright banner.

David Perry

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I've often wondered this. A bit of self aggrandising maybe or perhaps they've been ripped off before. Doesnt quitw fit the point of POL though.

Anth Knight

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As you said David, maybe they've been burned before. I post all my stuff small/low res so it's useless for print anyway, and I've never bothered watermarking it, but can completely understand why some would do so.
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Alan Green

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P'raps when we comment we should say "Nice painting, but spoiled by the copyright notice" :-)
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Michael Edwards

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Think I'll paint an abstract with the word 'Copyright' as part of the design. Problem solved.

Brian J Mackay

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You don't have to state that a painting or poem is copyrighted. The artist/author is the legal holder of the copyright the moment he/she puts brush or pen to paper. However, applying this "right" is a thornier proposition than you might suppose. Movies are copyrighted in their entirety, unless a waver is active, but they tend not to object to small scale operations . Lots of grey areas, though. If an image is in the public domain, like on a stamp, the laws vary from country to country. Use your own images or imagination to be on the safe side. All landscapes, for example, can be used as a reference, mainly because nobody owns a mountain or lake etc, but the exact image can not be used without permission. Bri
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Robert Jones, NAPA

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China isn't a signatory to the world copyright convention anyway, so far as I know - so there's very little to be done to protect your artwork from Chinese copyists or outright fraudsters, other than sue if their products are sold in countries outside of China: and even then, presumably you might catch the dealers, but not the people producing it.