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Is it ok to copyright a photo with a screen name?

Sure.

Whether or not you put a watermark copyright in there, copyright laws protect it, so it really doesn't matter what you put in.

However, it must be your own entirely original work to claim copyright.

Also, if it's something that is important or profitable, then you should probably use your real name or something else indentifying. Someone else could easily take up the screen name fuzzybabybunny and claim it's their work.
 
Originally posted by: Mday
no you cant. but you can trademark it =p
Click to expand...

... no.


A trademark is a mark unique to your company or self... not the materials they create or services they provide. Patented is the term given to a specific product that you create that is protected by your company and unique. Copyright is the term given to viewable materials, whether it be text or art, printed or digital.

For instance:
Coca-Cola's font and bottle shape are trademarked. No other soda vendor can use that font or bottle shape. Their soda formulas are patented. The patents are probably expired and can be reproduced if you can figure out the recipe, though. Their ads, website are copyright. Their labels are copyrighted, too. Trademarks can exist within the copyrighted materials.

http://www.uspto.gov/go/tac/doc/basic/trade_defin.htm

🙂
 
There's little point to claiming copyright on a photograph unless you register your images with the Libary of Congress.
 
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