The readings that I read have changed my perspective on my own design work since it gives a full understanding of what to do to ensure that what we’re designing has one, gives us full rights to us as the artist and the full process of learning how to use credits and security over artworks correctly. Copyright is important since it shows the limits to how much I can protect my own work to make sure when creating something for a client how much they have full rights to it, whether they can claim commercial rights or if the artist still carries the protection of their work. Since it’s against the law to copy someone else’s work and claim it as their own and it’s more important than when a higher-up company steals from an artist around for their own purposes, the artist can use the copyrights as a way to gain their poverty of work back. So even if this was something we artists might know sense that stealing is wrong without copyrights it makes it hard to claim your work which in a way tells people around that the work created by us artists obviously is claimed by us.
Personally, when it comes to work I do for myself and others I don’t really reach out for ideas from other artists themselves, but I’ll see more of their ideas and just get an idea of my own. Overall I probably only got to that point when it involves clients who like an idea of another which is something similar to theirs. But when I do, I have to make sure to properly do my background research on what social media to even where the original image source came from. This includes the name of the piece and the artist name of who created it, as well as where it came from. And when citing the source always make sure to have it near the reference and to clearly show your own work separate from it. Not doing something like this can cause a huge misunderstanding due to the fact no one won’t knows who created the original work unless someone knows but by then it would seem stolen since the artist itself wasn’t aware and can use the copyright rule against them. That is why it’s important to make clear who and what ideas were inspired by who.
The “Case Study on Fair Use and Fair Dealing: The Hope Poster Litigation” shows the importance of not properly crediting someone and the consequences behind the actions of those who don’t respect copyrights. Mr. Fairey started out ignorant of the rules and then, later on, tried to use makeup evidence to make it seem like they weren’t wrong when in reality it was. I don’t understand why it was so hard to just simply credit the original photographer, but it came to the point they just needed to have common ground with it. I think this gives a huge awareness to others to understand the importance of copyrights and how far it can go resulting in some jail time, but it can be done simply by just showing your audience who was the true person behind the idea of the reference used.
