Do copyrights cover face of dolls?
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I'm not sure if it's trademark or copyright law, but yes.  The best case dealing with this was from the late 1980s, when Mattel sued Topps because the "Garbage Pail Kids" cards produced by the latter too closely resembled Cabbage Patch kids.
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you can find them at this link..\n\n\nhttp://barbie.everythinggirl.com/catalog/catalogbrd.aspx?cat_id=200002
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That would almost certainly fall within the fair use provisions of US copyright law. Generally speaking, when you are giving criticism of another work, you are allowed to excerpt it in part, so long as what you are doing is providing identification or supporting facts for your criticism.\n\nSince most people are going to recognize a movie by its cover art / promotional collateral, you're fine.\n\nhttp://www.copyright.gov
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From the copyright holder.  You need to contact the owner directly and ask for terms.
493419
As far as I'm aware, there's no law on the books in the United States for that kind of thing.. the only picture issues you might have are generally copywrite infringment
832691
Type in U. S. Copyright Office.\nGet a kit from them.
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I don't think you can get a patent for images, but you can copyright them.  And no, not all images are copyrighted - but some are.  If they are, usually there will be a copyright warning either on the page or on the image itself.
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it depends on the particular picture.  if the picture is in the "public domain" then you are free to  duplicate it and use it as you wish.  typically copyrighted work enters the public domain 50 years or so after the creator's death, so most public-domain stuff is old.  images of the mona lisa, for instance, are public domain.\n\nsome copyrighted works lately have been distributed under some special licenses - for instance, the "creative commons license" allows for mostly free use, but i think you have to credit the creator.\n\nmost of the time if you want to use a copyrighted image, you have to contact the creator of the image and ask for their permission to use it.\n\nthere is an exemption to copyright law in the united states called the "fair use" doctrine which applies mostly to educational use.  if your blog is part of an educational project, you may be able to use it legally.\n\nif none of these special cases apply, you are probably in violation of copyright law.  however, odds are that nobody's going to care or even notice.  this kind of thing happens all the time on the internet since digital files can be copied so easily.  however, it's been known to happen - lots of owners of disney fan-sites have received cease & desist letters from disney's lawyers for displaying images of mickey mouse, for instance.  (no kidding)\n\nthe one thing you definitely shouldn't do is link to the image on someone else's site.  this is especially true if your blog is high-traffic, since every visitor to your site downloads the image from some other poor schmuck's web server.  most people pay for internet hosting by the gigabyte, which means you are costing someone money if you do this.  so don't.  it's mean.
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Absolutely, as long as the item you are selling does not infringe on someone else's trademark or copyright.
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There is some outrageously bad advice above. \n\nYou unquestionably violate the copyright of the photographer when you reprint it without authorization, regardless of the fact that it's on a web page. Further, you violate the copyright of the web page author.\n\nThe only exception to the rule is what's known under the copyright law as a fair use...  and what you've described is unlikely to qualify.
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the images are copyrighted, so there are limits on how you can use them for public and private use
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Go here for everything about copyrights:\n\nhttp://www.copyright.gov/\n\nYour specific item is called a "Visual Arts" work:\n\nhttp://www.copyright.gov/register/visual.html\n\nGood luck!
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Hi!\nActually you do not need any kind of licensing to do this, but I would recommend you to register your pictures under Copyrights that way you can avoid "somehow" people to copy your artwork! :) Additionally if you are seriously planning to do create this kind of business you are talking to the right person as I'm a professional web-designer, because I can make online-payments before downloads! :) Just contact me : gio@gomezsolutions.com. Take care!
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well u can go to newgrounds and make up dolls.
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it's best to assume that all pictures are copyright protected coming from a website.\n\ni recommend contacting each website (if you REALLY want to do it correct) and request them allowing you to use the pictures.\n\nmostly, you need to just document where the picture is from.  you would either do that next to each picture on the slide, or have a slide at the end saying where each picture came from.
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Without knowing further details, it's hard to determine exactly what you mean. Here's what the US Copyright Office says in respect to clothing, patterns, etc.:\n\nFor copyright purposes, visual arts are original pictorial, graphic, and sculptural works, which include two-dimensional and three-dimensional works of fine, graphic, and applied art. \n\nExamples of visual arts works:\n\nArtwork applied to clothing or to other useful articles \nFabric, floor, and wallcovering designs \nPatterns for sewing, knitting, crochet, needlework \nWeaving designs, lace designs, tapestries \n\nI listed the 4 that were specific to clothing/fabric. I also posted the link for the quote.\n\nHope that helps! I wish you much success & happiness in all your ventures!
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If you have desighned t-shirts with out approval from disney corp they can just steal your idea's once you present them to them. Its called copyrights and they have them on anything disney and if you use them without approval from them it is copyright infrigment.