Protecting your graphic creations with Copyright.eu
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Are you a freelance designer, a graphic artist or simply passionate about graphic design?
Copy and paste. This is enough to make your work illegally copied in a few clicks on the Internet
Every author is exposed to plagiarism, whether he or she is a musician, writer, designer, or illustrator. The issue is even more relevant in graphic design, where the line between inspiration, imitation and forgery is sometimes very difficult, if not almost impossible, to determine.
Graphic design manifests itself in various ways: it can be expressed through posters, printed matters, advertising, or decorative art, and includes typographic design, web design, industrial design and visual identity. The latter includes not only logos and graphic charters but also slogans, signs, fonts, and colours, etc. Unfortunately, visual identity is often the victim of plagiarism by malicious competitors or by illicit extraction of content.
To limit the risks of a third party stealing and exploiting your graphic design without authorisation, you can plan to establish proof of your anteriority on it.
Copyright for graphic creations. Protecting a comic, a drawing or an illustration has never been easier.
How to protect your graphic design as effectively as possible?
Under French law, graphic design has the same status as a work of art such as a painting or a sculpture. All artistic works, including logos, signs, or fonts, are protected by copyright law by the mere fact of their creation, subject to their originality. Even an InDesign file can be protected!
However, how can you prove that your graphic work was created on a specific date? And by whom? These are the major questions that will arise in the event of a dispute.
Use Copyright.eu qualified timestamping to document your files before sharing or publishing them. A deposit can support your evidence; it does not itself decide ownership or prevent all challenges. Compare the offers to choose file retention and identity-verification features.
Why choose Copyright.eu for online graphic designs protection?
Copyright.eu helps document the date and content of your files. Choose Express for qualified timestamping without file storage, Standard for secure file retention, or Certified for additional identity verification and the depositor’s signature. Features and guarantees depend on the selected offer.
Compare current offers and prices. Keep your original files and certificate.
The benefits of copyright law protection:
A qualified electronic timestamp issued in one EU Member State is recognised in all EU Member States under eIDAS. Outside the EU, the effect of evidence depends on applicable law. A deposit does not itself establish copyright ownership.
Any questions?
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