All About © Copyrights ©   This page is dedicated to important information about Copyrights and all it's legalities. As I have been repeatedly mentioning in several pages that this group follows strict guidelines and abide by the Copyrights Law.   It plainly means: when you had worked at something; a poem, song, designs and graphics, websites, or when you made something, it's protected. No one can change it, alter it, add or remove something from it.       A good example of it is myself when I started working on a Christian Poetry Book, it's a collection of all my poems from 1999-2001. I had all these poems written in my doodle notebooks and and everytime I would write something i would make a note on the bottom the time and date I first wrote it and put the © next to my name. Everytime I made a change to a certain poem, I would write the date I revised it. I had been invited to several church conventions to read my poetry. By 2002, I had written about 100 poems and transcribed all of them by typing them up on my computer and creating a file folder for them. I printed them all out in triplicates, made a note thetime and date I finished, put the collection in a FedEx envelope and mailed it to me. The other 2 copies are shrink wrapped, 1 copy was sent to my family in the Philippines, and the other I still have it tucked away with the unopened FedEx'd copy. That's how I was able to do my copyrights (cheap way). I finnally found someone that read thru my spoken words and will take my work to a publisher this year.       Anyway, enough about me, I'm providing several links here that will take you to websites that clearly explains everything about Copyrights. Just click on them and hope you gain some very useful information just as I did.   What is Copyrights?   The Copyrights Group   Myths about Copyrights   Rights for Artists   Copyrights & Fair Use   Copyright Website   Copyright Resources   Artists Legal Primer   US Copyright Office   Reporting Copyright Useage to MSN - Artist   For further information, you may check out this wonderful group that I belong to called Copyright Corner. The management take all the time and get as much info as needed to graphics/images to ensure that no copyrighted materials are floating around thus shutting a group down. They have a lot of helpful tips and links regarding copyrights issues and related topics. The group called DMAT has an extensive amount of information about Copyright No-Nos and Yes-Yes. Click on both buttons.               © PURPLE's ZOO 2003-2006