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What is a visual arts work?!

Visual arts copyrights are available for the types of media listed below.  When you want to copyright an advertisement, drawings, photographs, or bumper stickers, you want a visual arts copyright, and to make sure it is right, you want to use Register My Copyright! For copyright purposes, visual arts are original pictorial, graphic, and sculptural works, which include two-dimensional and three-dimensional works of fine, graphic, and applied art.

Examples of visual arts works:

• Advertisements (Ads), commercial prints, labels
• Artificial flowers and plants
• Artwork applied to clothing or to other useful articles.  These include
  • T shirt transfers
• Bumper stickers, decals, stickers
• Cartographic works, such as maps, globes, relief models
• Cartoons, comic strips
• Collages
• Dolls, toys
• Drawings, paintings, murals
• Enamel works
• Fabric, floor, and wallcovering designs
• Games, puzzles
• Greeting cards, postcards, stationery
• Holograms, computer and laser artwork
• Jewelry designs
• Models
• Mosaics
• Needlework and craft kits
• Original prints, such as engravings, etchings, serigraphs, silk screen prints, woodblock prints
• Patterns for sewing, knitting, crochet, needlework
• Photographs, photomontages
• Posters
• Record jacket artwork or photography.  These include:
  • CD art
• Relief and intaglio prints
• Reproductions, such as lithographs, collotypes
• Sculpture, such as carvings, ceramics, figurines, maquettes, molds, relief sculptures
• Stained glass designs
• Stencils, cut-outs
• Technical drawings, architectural drawings or plans, blueprints, diagrams, mechanical drawings
• Weaving designs, lace designs, tapestries

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