On Monday, 28th February, we had a guest speaker called Linda Scales in to talk to us about copyright. With a background in commercial law, she practices as a specialist in copyright and the other media and information technology laws which increasingly govern the dissemination of content and data. It was an interesting talk and very worthwhile being in attendance.
There are patents, trademarks, and other sorts of registered ways of protecting work but the one which concerns us as artists is copyright. It is our legal right to prevent others from exploiting our work. It is an unregistered form of protection. So we don't have to go down costly legal routes prior to putting our work out there for the public. We as authors and creators own the copyright and have rights.
If and when we get our own websites we can protect images of our work by watermarking or reducing our images to thumbnails with a low resolution. This means when the image is enlarged, it will be pixelated and there unclear to the viewer.
It certainly gives me peace of mind about my artistic endeavours.
Linda has her own website http://www.lindascales.com/ if you want to check it out.
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