Forum: Photography


Subject: Question - Our secret Identities...on the web!

L8RDAZE opened this issue on Mar 17, 2006 ยท 12 posts


L8RDAZE posted Fri, 17 March 2006 at 3:13 PM

This just popped in my head, but does anyone know if our internet "usernames" can be copyrighted? Some artists use these "handles" as their signature on the images they post. Usernames have become our second identity in ways,so I was wondering if this could potentially be used as a legal loophole to get around copyrights, which would be a bad thing...right? I would think that the "name" itself would have to be patented or licensed to make it legit! Anyways...just thought I'd ask!