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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Beefer518, post: 2831127, member: 87737&quot;]I don&#039;t know why I continue to respond, but....</p><p><br /></p><p>Yes, it is automatic. Proven in courts time and time again. What you are thinking of is &#039;registering for a copyright&#039;, which is NOT necessary for an image (or even what you write) for it to be copyright protected. What registering an image does is just make the legal legwork simpler for those that find others using their images without permission for commercial gain (a very wide spectrum). There was a case about 3 years ago where a tire company (which one escapes me) used an image an amateur photographer took at a mud rally of a truck that happened to have the company&#039;s tires on it. The photographer posted it on his Facebook, and the tire company thought it was a great picture, and used it in their advertising. The photo was not registered, and it was too late to register the image (there is a short window of when a photo can be registered after it was taken). The photographer got a lawyer (there are lawyers that only deal with this sort of thing), and the photographer ended up netting $8,000 after legal fees. In other words, he sued, he won, and whether or not the image had been registered, didn&#039;t matter, except he probably would have gotten more had it been registered.</p><p><br /></p><p>Sorry [USER=21705]@Marshall[/USER] , but you really are outside of your realm of expertise on this matter.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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