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Copyright Notice: All content contained in this website—including artwork, graphic design, photos, text, and web design—is protected under the current U.S. copyright law and any use thereof requires the permission of the artists/owners Steve R. and Heidi Romano. To ask permission, find our email address at the bottom of the about us page.

Following are excerpts of the U.S. Copyright Law. This information is provided as a courtesy to those of you who have requested it and as notice to those who aren't aware that it exists.

"Copyright protection subsists from the time the work is created in fixed form. The copyright in the work of authorship immediately becomes the property of the author who created the work. Only the author or those deriving their rights through the author can rightfully claim copyright.

Mere ownership of a book, manuscript, painting, or any other copy or phonorecord does not give the possessor the copyright. The law provides that transfer of ownership of any material object that embodies a protected work does not of itself convey any rights in the copyright.

Copyright protects "original works of authorship" that are fixed in a tangible form of expression. The fixation need not be directly perceptible so long as it may be communicated with the aid of a machine or device. Copyrightable works include the following categories:

1. literary works ; 2. musical works, including any accompanying words; 3. dramatic works, including any accompanying music; 4. pantomimes and choreographic works; 5. pictorial, graphic, and sculptural works; 6. motion pictures and other audiovisual works; 7. sound recordings; 8 architectural works

The use of a copyright notice is no longer required under U. S. law...Because prior law did contain such a requirement...

Any or all of the copyright owner's exclusive rights or any subdivision of those rights may be transferred, but the transfer of exclusive rights is not valid unless that transfer is in writing and signed by the owner of the rights..."

Further information on U.S. copyright law can be found at www.copyright.gov.