Copyright Infringement
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1. The popular way of obtaining images is to create them in a drawing or other image creation program. It is important to start from scratch rather than from someone else’s creation because even if an image is significantly altered, the new image may infringe upon the copyright in the first image thereby being classified as a “derivative work.”
2. The moment an original image or string of text is fixed on a hard drive for the first time, it is protected by copyright. Therefore, any further unauthorized copying of a protected image is an infringement of the creator’s copyright, unless the use falls within one of the very limited exceptions to the copyright law, such as “fair use.”
3. Some web sites provide free images that are for use by others. These images can be used in a web page, provided the terms proposed by
