I live in Central Florida. I do quite a bit of traveling for photo shoots etc.

All my photographs are copyright soley to me with all Rights reserved.

 

Copyright protection in the United States Federal Crime stealing copyright material

§ 106. Exclusive rights in copyrighted works38

Subject to sections 107 through 122, the owner of copyright under this title has the exclusive rights to do and to authorize any of the following:

 

(1) to reproduce the copyrighted work in copies or phonorecords;

 

(2) to prepare derivative works based upon the copyrighted work;

 

(3) to distribute copies or phonorecords of the copyrighted work to the public by sale or other transfer of ownership, or by rental, lease, or lending;

 

(4) in the case of literary, musical, dramatic, and choreographic works, pantomimes, and motion pictures and other audiovisual works, to perform the copyrighted work publicly;

 

(5) in the case of literary, musical, dramatic, and choreographic works, pantomimes, and pictorial, graphic, or sculptural works, including the individual images of a motion picture or other audiovisual work, to display the copyrighted work publicly; and

 

(6) in the case of sound recordings, to perform the copyrighted work publicly by means of a digital audio transmission.

 

Copyright protection in the United States is applied to any 'work' the minute it is put into a tangible form

 

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Once something has gone from imagination to fixed form (paper, computer, online, etc) the law protects that work with a copyright. When someone else uses that creation without permission from the creator, copyright infringement has occurred.

  

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This is a Federal Offense..