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To make myself clear, I am not promoting copyright infringement, but rather informing & looking for clarification surrounding copyright laws of images and graphics.
I made a post earlier today that I believe was not written clearly enough to illustrate that I am looking for clarification surrounding copyright laws with regards to the use of images and graphics. I attempted to get information by creating these posts, but ultimately received nothing useful. I did seek out the information on my own, and so I am going to share with you the information that I found. I will be referencing this article: https://99designs.ca/blog/tips/that-little-a-quick-guide-to-copyright/
If you want you have any clarifications or corrections to the information I provided, please provide me with sources and I will gladly update the information on this original post.
When it comes to copyright laws and graphics, there is a lot of grey area surrounding copyrights and is typically judged on a case to case basis. Copyright does not expand to things like names, colors, typefaces, geometric designs and familiar symbols.
In my OP I discussed downloading an image of a rounded triangle with watermarks and adding a color overlay to the image and other effects to manipulate it.
Even though the author of the original image added a watermark to the shape it is not protected under copyright laws as it falls under the category of geometric designs and familiar symbols.
Logos are not protected by copyright laws unless they are uniquely artistic and/or ornate. This goes back to the point made earlier with regards to copyright laws surrounding graphics having a lot of grey areas. How artistic / ornate a graphic is in my honest opinion is a very subjective view.
So to answer my question I had earlier, taking an image an manipulating it may or may not be copyright infringement, according to this article.
Thank you for your time! and happy YouTubeing.
I made a post earlier today that I believe was not written clearly enough to illustrate that I am looking for clarification surrounding copyright laws with regards to the use of images and graphics. I attempted to get information by creating these posts, but ultimately received nothing useful. I did seek out the information on my own, and so I am going to share with you the information that I found. I will be referencing this article: https://99designs.ca/blog/tips/that-little-a-quick-guide-to-copyright/
If you want you have any clarifications or corrections to the information I provided, please provide me with sources and I will gladly update the information on this original post.
- When is a graphic considered to be copyrighted?
When it comes to copyright laws and graphics, there is a lot of grey area surrounding copyrights and is typically judged on a case to case basis. Copyright does not expand to things like names, colors, typefaces, geometric designs and familiar symbols.
In my OP I discussed downloading an image of a rounded triangle with watermarks and adding a color overlay to the image and other effects to manipulate it.
Even though the author of the original image added a watermark to the shape it is not protected under copyright laws as it falls under the category of geometric designs and familiar symbols.
- Are logos protected by copyright?
Logos are not protected by copyright laws unless they are uniquely artistic and/or ornate. This goes back to the point made earlier with regards to copyright laws surrounding graphics having a lot of grey areas. How artistic / ornate a graphic is in my honest opinion is a very subjective view.
- Is modeling design after a photograph considered copyright infringement?
So to answer my question I had earlier, taking an image an manipulating it may or may not be copyright infringement, according to this article.
- So manipulating an image so that it is not similar makes no longer protects it from copyright laws?
- Final Thoughts
Thank you for your time! and happy YouTubeing.