1. You do not have to register your creation of ANY type of media to copyright it. As soon as you created it, it is covered by copyright laws of the world, except for a few countries, Taiwan being one
2. You do not even have to show the © symbol, nor make any type of statement regarding your copyrights
3. The moment your intellectual property has been copied, copyrights has been breached, unless of course you have granted permission
4. If you choose to use copyrighted works in the situation of public commentary, you must show to whom the copyrights belongs to
5. Visit: http://pages.ebay.com/help/policies/programs-vero-ov.html to learn what to do on eBay
6. Visit: http://www.copyright.gov.au for Australia
7. Visit: http://www.copyright.org for the USA

Standing Up For Your Rights

A thief will never admit to being a thief. Human nature will have them tell you that you should be flattered, that they were inspired by your work, that their work is an adaptation of your work and so it not a copy. I have heard them all and so much so that I was forced to create a WALL OF SHAME on my own website.

To the right is a fellow Twitter-ers @problogger dilemma with a breach of his copyrights. Overlaying the two logos and using animation, you can easily see the breach has occurred and that by @beamdotmy.