Copyright protection exists from the time the work is created in a fixed form:that is, it is an incident of the process of authorship. The copyright in the work of authorship immediatly becomes the property of the author who created it.-Circular 1,Copyright Basics provided by the US Copyright office. That is how copyright is obtained-the moment you create it, you own the copyright to it. It does not have to be formally registered to own the copyright. I dont figure anything about it-The info Ive qouted is directly from the US Copyright office, and as far as teh USA is concerned-thats the law, its also the same with the majority of the International copyright laws. I have no problem with yuo stating your opinion, or have anything against you, it's just this thread has been going for so long, and rehashing the same thing over and over, there honestly is no debate about the commercial use of objects-The creator of a object automatically by law owns full copyright to his/her creation, and under those same laws have every right to dictate the use of their creatoin. we might not like that, We might not agree to that-but that is the law-plain and simple-cut and dry.