If I get a copyright in Canada is my work protected in any other countries?
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you would obtain automatic copyright in any other country if your work was first published in one of the countries included among those who have signed the Berne, Universal Copyright or Rome conventions or the WTO agreement, even if you were not a citizen or subject of Canada, or of one of those countries.\n\nIn short, virtually everyone living in Canada can enjoy the benefits of automatic copyright protection. In addition, Canadians are protected in most foreign countries since most belong to one or more of the international treaties — the Berne Convention or the Universal Copyright Convention, the Rome Convention or are members of the WTO. Citizens of countries which are members of those conventions enjoy the benefits of Canadian copyright law in Canada. Canada also extends protection to certain non-member countries by way of notice in the Canada Gazette.
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If you don't have a record label to do these things for you, a good bet would be to get a creative commons licence for works you would like to distribute to the public domain. More information on this can be found at creativecommons.org.\n\nCreative Commons licenses provide a flexible range of protections and freedoms for authors, artists, and educators. They have built upon the "all rights reserved" concept of traditional copyright to offer a voluntary "some rights reserved" approach.
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Go to the copyright office and have it certified as your own and then they give u legal documents that prove it belongs to you! \n\nMy advice is contact a lawyer and ask them and they may be able to tell u the right way to get something copyrighted.
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It is, but they don't enforce other people's copyrights only theres and the ones sold at China only.
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Yes you can do that if it is not copyright protected.\nE
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On one level, copyright protection vests as soon as you fix your creative work in a tangible medium (such as a web server), but should you need to sue for infringement, it would be very helpful to the court if you've registered with the copyright office (see the link below).  The precise procedure depends on the type of content of you wish to protect.  If you want to be absolutely sure, speak with an attorney.
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Yes. Derivative works are considered an infringement of copyright.\n\nhttp://www.copyright.gov/help/faq/faq-fairuse.html#howmuch
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Yes, that's exactly what it means.  If your're an artist, DONT DO IT!  The art you do will no longer be yours.... no royalties, no recognition.  If they want to be a pain about it, they may not even let you use it in your porfolio.  Check out the G.A.G.  They have some sample contracts that are very good.  A lot of people don't even realize that they can negotiate about these things.
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Here's what the US Copyright Office has to say:\n\n"gives the owner of copyright the exclusive right to do and to authorize others to do the following:\n\n      To reproduce the work in copies or phonorecords;\n\n      To prepare derivative works based upon the work;\n\n      To distribute copies or phonorecords of the work to the public by sale or other transfer of ownership, or by rental, lease, or lending;\n\n      To perform the work publicly, in the case of literary, musical, dramatic, and choreographic works, pantomimes, and motion pictures and other audiovisual works;\n\n      To display the work publicly, in the case of literary, musical, dramatic, and choreographic works, pantomimes, and pictorial, graphic, or sculptural works, including the individual images of a motion picture or other audiovisual work; and\n\n      In the case of sound recordings*, to perform the work publicly by means of a digital audio transmission."\n\nHope that helps! I wish you much success & happiness in all your ventures!
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not right.  You know that already.\n\n:(  I know what you mean though.. You don't want to risk having your copy being lost or messed up... \n\nJust go out and get a second copy the legal way... buy it.  Then keep your copy safe and loan the other one out to your friends.
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"You may not exercise any of the rights granted to You in Section 3 above in any manner that is primarily intended for or directed toward commercial advantage or private monetary compensation. The exchange of the Work for other copyrighted works by means of digital file-sharing or otherwise shall not be considered to be intended for or directed toward commercial advantage or private monetary compensation, provided there is no payment of any monetary compensation in connection with the exchange of copyrighted works."\n\nSource: Creative Commons Non-Commercial License.\n\nIf the item is copyrighted under a different Creative Commons License, then you need to go to:\nhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/\nand find the right one for the work that you want to use.
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I am not a lawyer, and you should probably speak to one about this, but here's my two cents. The full legal text says, "You may not exercise any of the rights granted to You in Section 3 above in any manner that is primarily intended for or directed toward commercial advantage or private monetary compensation. The exchange of the Work for other copyrighted works by means of digital file-sharing or otherwise shall not be considered to be intended for or directed toward commercial advantage or private monetary compensation, provided there is no payment of any monetary compensation in connection with the exchange of copyrighted works."\n\nDetermining what is "primarily intended" for commercial purposes is somewhat hazy, but if you are not making more money than it costs to run the site, etc. (factoring in non-cash costs like your time as well), you are likely acting within the license. Making money is not completely forbidden by the license, but using the work primarily to do so.
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Unless an original creation or in the public domain, I think you can pretty much assume everything is copyrighted, such as images from web pages, books, movies, tv shows, team logos, cartoons characters, board and video games, celebrities, bands, etc. etc.  \n\nYou can check the copyright of specific images at the source of the publicication of the original image. \n\nIt might just be easier to search out resources for public domain images, and here's a good one from Wikipedia to start with:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_domain_image_resources
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It is illegal to download any creative work without payment or permission from the artist or their representative unless the artist has placed that work in the public domain.  Commercials are even protected under copyright laws even though they are used to promote and sell a product. A copyright refers to any creative work.
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Be sure that you do not violate any intellectual property rights. See the US Customs & Border Protection web site for further details
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"Copyright is a set of exclusive rights granted by governments to regulate the use of a particular expression of an idea or information. At its most general, it is literally "the right to copy" an original creation. In most cases, these rights are of limited duration. The symbol for copyright is ©, and in some jurisdictions may alternately be written (c).\n\nCopyright may subsist in a wide range of creative, intellectual, or artistic forms or "works". These include poems, theses, plays, and other literary works, movies, choreographic works (dances, ballets, etc.), musical compositions, audio recordings, paintings, drawings, sculptures, photographs, software, radio and television broadcasts of live and other performances, and, in some jurisdictions, industrial designs. Copyright is a type of intellectual property; designs or industrial designs may be a separate or overlapping form of intellectual property in some jurisdictions.\n\nCopyright law covers only the particular form or manner in which ideas or information have been manifested, the "form of material expression". It is not designed or intended to cover the actual idea, concepts, facts, styles, or techniques which may be embodied in or represented by the copyright work. Copyright law provides scope for satirical or interpretive works which themselves may be copyrighted. See idea-expression divide.\n\nFor example, the copyright which subsists in relation to a Mickey Mouse cartoon prohibits unauthorized parties from distributing copies of the cartoon or creating derivative works which copy or mimic Disney's particular anthropomorphic mouse, but does not prohibit the creation of artistic works about anthropomorphic mice in general, so long as they are sufficiently different to not be imitative of the original. Other laws may impose legal restrictions on reproduction or use where copyright does not - such as trademarks and patents."\n\nbasically copyrighting something means that you have given birth to this idea, or invention and are now telling the world that it's all yours and that no one else can copy it with out your permission, the protection part is that if someone does try to duplicate your words, or inventions, or what not by using the exact same format, then they can face a hefy fine, or even jail time. Notice how the top part is in quotes that's because I didn't say it, I mearly looked it up and transcribed it for your bennifit, and at the bottom will note where the information came from giving due credit where credit is earned.
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It will cost you and you need to send it away to the copyright offices. I'm not sure how it done in India, but here in North America, you have to mail the design to yourself as proof that it is yours.