'the exclusive and assignable legal right, given to the originator for a fixed number of years, to print, publish, perform, film, or record literary, artistic, or musical material'
Copyright basically in the world of illustration protects your work from being reproduced, plagiarised and used without the permission of you the artist. It also protect your artworks from being miss used or usage outside the time what was negotiated in the Commission acceptance agreement.
So how does copyright effect me?
It does a lot, as a student I have no legal help from agency which represent me, like the AOI, so any work that goes on the internet could be targeted and I may not have a leg to stand on.
There is a few things i can think of to try and prevent people from copying my works.
Watermarks
This is a very easy way to protect the images you put on the web and blogs. This is where you place a layer over the top containing a copyright logo, names and any other additional information. This watermark is normally slithy opaque so containing lines to the corners. This allow the image to be seen easily but makes it pretty impossible for someone else to claim its theres. There is one major problem with this method which is that it make you artwork look shit as the image can be completely blocked by these watermarks and can ruin the viewing of the artwork.
Copyright logos
If copyright logos are present on your site and not necessarily on the work itself, this could be enough of a deterrent as it shows that you understand copyright law. But this does not stop anyone from right clicking and pressing 'copy' or 'save as' so this is more of a warning which is good but offers little protection.
Disable right-click
On some artists websites, the ability to right click has been disabled over image to prevent the option to 'copy' or 'save as'. This is such a good way to protect you work and maintain the artwork in it original form. But unless you understand web coding, doing this can be confusing. I tried to do this disabling by following a tutorial online and i couldn't get it to work. The other thing is it does not stop someone from printing screen and getting your image that way but this is quite a lot of hassle for poor quality images.
Reflection
Out of these, I think that including a copyright logo somewhere on your page is a good idea as its easy to do and it may deter some. But i think that the disabling of the right click is the best thing possible, it does protect you images and a lot people will have to do back to your site rather than taking a copy, increasing views and interest around yourself. All thats left to do is ....
....to figure it out.
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