You don't need to register copyright. If you create it, you have copyright.
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Mu Dinofiddler, Wed 23 Jan 2013, 0:55,
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Not always so.
It is WAY more complicated than that. I know because I've been trying to do some new greetings cards for my shop.
edit: I run an Art Gallery (you wouldn't know it from my scribblings). I own a picture. i personally take a photo of the picture I own. The artist has been dead over the 70 years. I still don't have copyright.
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TheSundaeLunch I'm a fucking shrub, alright?, Wed 23 Jan 2013, 0:59,
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That completely disagrees with my understanding of copyright law.
Copyright is an automatic right, no registration is required. See the IPO www.ipo.gov.uk/types/design/d-applying/d-before/d-needreg.htm.
Copyright is only one of multiple forms of protection for Intellectual Property.
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Mu Dinofiddler, Wed 23 Jan 2013, 1:06,
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sorry my edit came after your post.
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TheSundaeLunch I'm a fucking shrub, alright?, Wed 23 Jan 2013, 1:10,
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That's where my knowledge of copyright falls down.
I'd assume that there's now no copyright on the artwork, but there would be on your photograph. So people couldn't use your photo, but could use their own photos of the artwork.
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Mu Dinofiddler, Wed 23 Jan 2013, 1:19,
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See below. Now Dinosaur.
Edit: OK no Dino. At least one of us is VERY drunk and it might be me. I might pop off to bed.
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TheSundaeLunch I'm a fucking shrub, alright?, Wed 23 Jan 2013, 1:23,
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\o/
All is right with the world again.
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TheSundaeLunch I'm a fucking shrub, alright?, Wed 23 Jan 2013, 12:09,
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Copyright
Is simply a way to make a lawyer smile. But you are Mu. I demand a rainbow dinosaur. I have nothing more to say.
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TheSundaeLunch I'm a fucking shrub, alright?, Wed 23 Jan 2013, 1:16,
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