'Moral rights' are certain legal rights under the 1988 Copyright Designs and Patents Act. They include

Creative Commons and other 'share-and-share-alike' licenses are sometimes called viral licenses, because they require anyone who creates a derivative work to apply an identical license to their new wo

As soon as you place your work on the public web, you lose the innocence of not having to pay any heed to copyright.

There are various ways in which a photograph or other artwork may 'derive' from another.

It is a legal framework for intellectual property, so inevitably it is a mechanism to regulate who owns what and who pays whom.

An included work is someone else's copyright material that appears in your photograph. Provided the inclusion is incidental, this does not infringe.

Copyleft is the generic name for licensing schemes that permit some free copying, adaptation or derivative work provided the copy is also issued with an identical licence.

Your photographs are your work and they are your asset. If you work as a professional photographer they are your only asset. Copyright is your title to that asset.

The original intention of copyright was to provide a means to ensure the public had a copious supply of 'good books' to read, and this principle has been extended to other forms of creative

Copyright expires 70 years after the death of the author. At that time the work becomes public domain and available to anyone to use without permission or payment.