Whether you create art for fun, for profit, or both, it is always advisable to register for copyright protection for your work. Rights to your own original designs remain protected, and you will be prepared if anyone alleges that you violated someone’s intellectual property rights. As an artist it is important for you to know your rights, exercise your rights, and protect your rights.

Copyright for Artists is over 30 pages long. It contains specific information for artists about how to protect their arts and crafts. This guide explains how to register for United States copyright registration of various types of visual art, such as advertisements, drawings, paintings, jewelry designs, needlework, original prints, sewing patterns, posters, sculpture, and weaving designs. Copyright for Artists does not apply to non-U.S. works, musical works (like songs), or literary works (like books).

The eBook is based on the rules and regulations found at www.copyright.gov, but the essential copyright information you’ll find here is laid out in an easy-to-understand manner that’s specifically tailored to the artistic community.

Copyright for Artists contains:
1. Clear, easy to follow, copyright information.
2. Step-by-step instructions for acquiring copyright protection with the U.S. Copyright Office.
3. Information about other intellectual property protection like trademark law, patent law, trade secret law, and contract law.
4. Answers to frequently asked questions, inspired by Etsy threads.
5. Fun and useful visuals.
6. Helpful and easy to read charts.

U.S. copyright registration requires one form, one fee, and zero attorneys. You may also be able to register a group of works with one form and one fee. There are many online services that will charge you a fee for copyright registration, but with Copyright for Artists you do not have to go through such a service.

Sarah Feingold is a licensed attorney in New York State, where she works as Etsy’s in house counsel but she also an entrepreneur and a jeweler, so she understands the concerns that are specific to artists.

You will need Adobe Reader to view the PDF; download the program for free at www.adobe.com.

Please respect copyright law and refrain from distributing, copying, or otherwise forwarding on this guide without permission.

Please note that Copyright for Artists does not constitute formal legal advice. By purchasing this guide, you agree to hold Sarah Feingold and Feingold Jewelry harmless for any and all liability that may arise from the use of this guide. Please do not purchase Copyright for Artists if you do not agree to these terms.

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We are adding new PDF Tutorials and patterns every day, so make sure to check back daily to see whats new!

We will be adding new classes this week, so make sure to click on Meet The Teachers.

Here are some sample photos of a few of the PDF tutorials and patterns. You can now watch a video in You Tube that shows some of the classes and patterns at Crafted Online.

You can find these tutorials in the photos under the PDF categories, knitting, crochet, sewing, assemblage and felting. Enjoy!

Please do not hesitate to contact us with any questions or comments. craftedonline@gmail.com

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We’ve had an excellent turn-out this past month with our recruitment efforts. We’ve been seeking the best teachers and tutorials on arts and crafts available on the internet, and now they are here! Our live classes start on June 2, where you can sign up to spend time with a teacher in a webinar setting. We also have wonderful pdfs available in all kinds of arts and crafts including some incredible kntting and crochet patterns. Be sure to check out the rest of the site to see what is available! And if you want to teach with us, check out the Teach Here page. 

Click here to fill out a very simple form that is going to help us tell our teachers when YOU are available, ready, and willing to come to their live classes!

This slideshow only has a few of the many fun projects we have in store for you!

We have begun securing excellent artists to teach with us. We will be offering classes in collage, Studio clay, artist copywriting issues, jewelry making, polymer clay cane making, mixed media designing, costuming, crocheting jewelry with wire, amoung other things. We would love to find a knitting teacher, a sewing teacher, and a crochet teacher, as well as folks interested in sewing, different types of needlework, felting, and anything else you can think of! We are very excited and our little snippet of audio/visual about how this is all going to work will be posted on this site by next Sunday March 23..

This is your chance- let us, and your favorite artists and crafters, know that you would love to take a live online class with them! We value your input, and the teachers we will be recruiting want to know that their classes will be in demand!

So if you are a scrapbooker or rubber stamper, a needleworker, polymer clay artist, or aspiring jewelry designer, please leave a comment and tell everyone that you would like to take a class. And, what kind of things would you like to learn? Some of our teachers will teach Processes- this means you will learn a skill to use on your own projects, but you might not actually finish a project during class. Other teachers will guide you through a Project from beginning to end. You might enjoy both types of classes.

All you have to do is click on “Comment” below this post to leave your input. Thanks, and we hope we can fulfill your requests!

Crafted Online is coming soon! We have contacted many of your favorite artists and crafters in many media, including polymer clay, collage, beadweaving, metal clays, scrapbooking, sewing, and jewelry making. Come back soon to check out the line up of teachers and classes that will be offered. We hope to launch a full schedule of online, live video classes, in Mid-March.