On the federal preemption of copyright law, claims and remedies, 17 U.S.C. Sec. 301(a) provides that:
. . . all legal or equitable rights that are equivalent to any of the exclusive rights within the general scope of copyright as specified by section 106 in works of authorship that are fixed in a tangible medium of expression and come within the subject matter of copyright as specified by sections 102 and 103, whether created before or after [January 1, 1978] and whether published or unpublished, are governed exclusively by this title. Thereafter, no person is entitled to any such right or equivalent right in any such work under the common law or statutes of any State.
28 U.S.C. Sec 1338(a) provides:
The district courts shall have original jurisdiction of any civil action arising under any Act of Congress relating to patents, plant variety protection, copyrights and trademarks. No State court shall have jurisdiction over any claim for relief arising under any Act of Congress relating to patents, plant variety protection, or copyrights. . . .
I cannot think of a reason to do it. People can easily steal the art. Typically the water marks look odd and detract from the piece. As someone said it is graffiti.
Hip Coyote wrote:
I cannot think of a reason to do it. People can easily steal the art. Typically the water marks look odd and detract from the piece. As someone said it is graffiti.
It may deter those who do not use an editor.
It lets people know who did the image.
If I do it, I only do it to images posted on the web, never printed. I sign the mat.
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