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Copyright Information
Copyright is the protection of your designs and drawings. It simply means that anything you design is yours alone and no one else can copy your design and make a profit from it.
Another way of explaining it would be like this: This entire course is filled with drawings that I did specifically for this course. I’ve published the lessons and distributed them to you and the other students to use as reference, examples and possible springboards. In some instances, I’ve asked you to redraw my characters as part of an assignment. This doesn’t mean that they are now yours to do as you wish with them. You can’t take the drawings that you’ve done and turn around and sell them to a store or a magazine. They’re my designs and that would be copyright infringement.
Another example would be if you took this course package and photocopied it and gave it to a friend. That is copyright infringement as well. You didn’t profit from it but your friend saved the money it would cost to buy it and I lost the money I would have made in a sale. It’s a form of stealing.
It sound rather academic when I explain it here but you have to put yourself in this situation. If you designed something and someone took your design and sold them to ABC Cereal Co. and a year from now, your character design is on every package of cereal that this company makes, I think you’d be a bit ticked off cause you’re not getting paid for it, but the person who stole your design is.
It’s not the ABC Cereal Co.'s problem, they didn’t steal it, they paid someone for it, it just wasn’t you. |
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