This is an upcoming article made for Web Designers who want to learn Search Engine Optimization, hence the title Basic SEO for Web Designers. I will try to make this post as easy to understand as possible.
There are so many sites out there (if not all) that has Copyright © at the bottom of the page. I doubt all of them know what Copyright really is and they just placed the copyright symbol because all sites are doing it and it makes the site more reliable and established. But there is more to Copyright that we need to know.
According to Wikipedia, Copyright means:
Copyright is a set of exclusive rights regulating the use of a particular expression of an idea or information. At its most general, it is literally “the right to copy” an original creation. In most cases, these rights are of limited duration. The symbol for copyright is ©, and in some jurisdictions may alternatively be written as either (c) or (C).
Copyright may subsist in a wide range of creative, intellectual, or artistic forms or “works”. These include poems, theses, plays, and other literary works, movies, choreographic works (dances, ballets, etc.), musical compositions, audio recordings, paintings, drawings, sculptures, photographs, software, radio and television broadcasts of live and other performances, and, in some jurisdictions, industrial designs. Designs or industrial designs may have separate or overlapping laws applied to them in some jurisdictions. Copyright is one of the laws covered by the umbrella term intellectual property.
I was reading previous articles in PhilWeavers Open Forum and one guy provided links to archived Video Tutorials on intermediate and advanced Photoshop techniques, all from Photoshop TV .
Ever had that experience where your javascript is shown behind your flash file? Take a look at this example problem:
In Web Design and Print Design, we always use images on our designs and most new designers get their images from other sites found in a image search. They might not know about it but copying images from other sites is stealing and violates copyright laws, and some site owners are very serious about their copyright.
Ardie once referred me to this site about taking speculative outsourced work and I find it very interesting. Here is the analogy on what No!Spec is all about: