Let's talk about copyrighting.

Nowadays everyone and their mother are following a trend called copyright infringement. Webster's dictionary definition for copyright reads as follows - the exclusive legal right to reproduce, publish, sell, or distribute the matter and form of something ( as a literary, musical, or artistic work). What does this mean in layman's-term? The ability to protect your stuff legally so others can be prosecuted if no permission was granted.

Even though most people that own a specific piece of design, art, logo etc. may not distribute to the public their exclusive rights of ownership of that, it's still there. There has been many cases that an individual has been prosecuted legally by simply copy and pasting an image they saw on google or on other search engines for commercial use. Although it's very simple to do, there can be many consequences to these actions.

A copyright supplies the owner a granted or limited amount of monopoly with the created copyright material that gives assurance for control over its use. Meaning, if you do decide to get an image from the internet for publishing use; find the source/owner of the image, ask permission, if asked, pay a royalty for using the said image, get it in writing, use the image with proper permission.

I will be creating a simple 5 page web page in the very near future consisting the ins and outs of copyright infringement and also appropriate channels where you can get your material copyrighted and then some !