Copyright - Task

 Review your existing work/online presence; consider how you protect your work moving forward

Currently, my professional/art based online presence is on Instagram, YouTube and the university blogger account. 

Instagram: 

I currently don't have any copyright claims on any of my works, mostly because my work is fan art. In the past I have redrawn shots from movies or posters, but recently I've moved towards drawing pre-existing characters in new poses in my own style. As they usually have the same key features and outfits as the original, I've mostly stuck to the fair use claim and not tried to sell/ profit from my art. The only way of protecting my own work that I have in place is signing/ writing my account name on my art, which could easily be cropped because it's not currently like a watermark. 

I do want to start profiting so I might either start joining some fan projects such as the Redbubble selling platform and start drawing more towards brands that have infringed CC. Equally, I might open commissions or just start catering more towards characters i have designed, which will also create more industry practice.  

YouTube:

 Currently, the only public art on my YouTube channel is my Level 4 animation The Boss- everything else is unlisted so that it can only be viewed through my blog. I feel like my animation uses ideas from a lot of pre-existing medias such as Boss Baby and Toy Story; I also don't feel like the characters are very complicated. Therefore I might write a CC (creative commons) license on my The Boss YouTube. 

I also have another channel from when I was younger that has a lot of (very bad, my screwy 12 year old editing) crack videos. Which are videos to make people laugh with clips from movies played over music. I actually did have a few copyright issues of my own with these back then. Therefore I might delete or un-list these to a) avoid the old copyright issues, b) improve my image as an artist, c) get rid of unpopular, unwatched content. 

Blogger: 

 I think that blogger currently holds most of the professional work that I would want protecting. It houses a large collection of my concept art, animations and sketches - even just the links to my unlisted YouTube videos. Following what was said in class, my next step is to add a copyright on to my blogger.