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Sandee:

How very nice to see you here!

(For those that don't know, just check out the book shelves at Border's next time you are there!)

Peter is exactly right. Copyright is created at the moment that the shutter is pressed or pencil/brush is applied to paper.

The reason for registering with the Copyright Office is that it provides further proof of ownership (and allows you to collect higher legal damages if infringement occurs!) � but registration is not obligatory.

What Adobe are doing here is not a case of grabbing your copyright (they can't do that without a signed written agreement of transfer) but purloining the rights of all Usage, for any purpose, anywhere and for all time.

Wade has already pointed out the other dangers here.

Apart from loss of control of how your Art is used; and the loss of income from royalties: there is the huge problem of identifiable pictures of people and places being used for Advertising and Commercial Purposes without a signed Model Release and the potential for expensive law suits as a result.