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====The Copyright act gives the copyright owner the exclusive right to reproduce or modify their work, and to exclude others from doing so. Copying includes copying or saving their image to your hard drive, or copying to other mediums, like scanning a photo from a book and turning it into a JPEG file.====

==== Since October 31, 1988, works no longer need a copyright notice to have copyright protection. This means any image you find on a web page may be copyrighted.The traditional notice, such as "Copyright 1989 XZV Co." or " ©1989 XZV Co." is no longer required. Most web site content has been created since 1988, so beware. ====

====The copyright owner can sue people who take their picture for the owner's lost profit, profits, profit the infringer made, statutory damages (up to $10,000 and as much as $50,000 for willful infringement), and attorney's fees and costs.====

"Downloading Images, JPEGs, GIFs or BMPs." //Welcome to Public Domain Images - PDimages.com//. Web. 11 Jan. 2011. .
Rosa, Alessandra. //You Can Click but You Can't Hide//. Digital image. Web. 13 Jan. 2011. <http://alessandralosa.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/illegal_download.jpg