The Neon Hippo

I got into a somewhat heated discussion yesterday when I mentioned to a friend that a client had sent me pictures he lifted off someone else’s website to be included in the website I’m building for him.  I was told that I was splitting hairs and looking for excuses not to do the work.  Nothing could be further from the truth.  I want to get this site done and done right.  Stealing intellectual property is not my idea of doing it right.

I found this article titled “10 Big Myths about Copyright Explained”  Check it out… it’s a good source of information for those who are copyright challenged.

I would like to especially point out Myth number 1 “If it doesn’t have a copyright notice, it’s not copyrighted.”  That was the argument that was used to tell me that I’m wrong.  As a former professional photographer, I’m intimately familiar with this.  It’s NOT TRUE!  The photograph is copyrighted the instant the photographer took the photograph.