DT&G stands for "design, type and graphics." It can also mean "Desktop Graphics" if you prefer. David Pogue of the New York Times, Missing Manual Press and Macworld magazine calls it "Delicous Tips from the Guru!"

For nearly 10 years, two distinctly different versions of DT&G were enjoyed by millions of online readers on the Web, major services, and many BBSs. There was the internet edition, (you're reading now), the Downloadable PDF edition (discontinued several years ago), and the TEXT eZine edition sent each and every month on or around the first.

It is important to understand that DTG first started as the PDF edition which was distributed to all seminar and workshop attendees of Macworld Expo, Dynamic Graphics DGEF Seminars, Multicom, and other providers who hosted founder/editor Fred Showker's seminars. DTG carried additional information, answered questions and built an ongoing relationship with those workshop attendees.

Copyright is a set of exclusive rights regulating the use of a particular expression of an idea or information. At its most general, it is literally "the right to copy" an original creation. In most cases, these rights are of limited duration. The symbol for copyright is ©, and in some jurisdictions may alternatively be written as either (c) or (C).

Copyright may subsist in a wide range of creative, intellectual, or artistic forms or "works". These include poems, theses, plays, and other literary works, movies, choreographic works (dances, ballets, etc.), musical compositions, audio recordings, paintings, drawings, sculptures, photographs, software, radio and television broadcasts of live and other performances, and, in some jurisdictions, industrial designs. Designs or industrial designs may have separate or overlapping laws applied to them in some jurisdictions. Copyright is one of the laws covered by the umbrella term 'intellectual property'.

Copyright law covers only the form or manner in which ideas or information have been manifested, the "form of material expression". It is not designed or intended to cover the actual idea, concepts, facts, styles, or techniques which may be embodied in or represented by the copyright work. For example, the copyright which subsists in relation to a Mickey Mouse cartoon prohibits unauthorized parties from distributing copies of the cartoon or creating derivative works which copy or mimic Disney's particular anthropomorphic mouse, but does not prohibit the creation of artistic works about anthropomorphic mice in general, so long as they are sufficiently different to not be deemed imitative of the original. In some jurisdictions, copyright law provides scope for satirical or interpretive works which themselves may be copyrighted. Other laws may impose legal restrictions on reproduction or use where copyright does not - such as trademarks and patents.

Copyright laws are standardized through international conventions such as the Berne Convention in some countries and are required by international organizations such as European Union or World Trade Organization from their member states.

In Summary

• These days, almost all things are copyrighted the moment they are written, and no copyright notice is required.
• Copyright is still violated whether you charged money or not, only damages are affected by that.
• Postings to the net are not granted to the public domain, and don't grant you any permission to do further copying except perhaps the sort of copying the poster might have expected in the ordinary flow of the net.
• Fair use is a complex doctrine meant to allow certain valuable social purposes. Ask yourself why you are republishing what you are posting and why you couldn't have just rewritten it in your own words.
• Copyright is not lost because you don't defend it; that's a concept from trademark law. The ownership of names is also from trademark law, so don't say somebody has a name copyrighted.
• Fan fiction and other work derived from copyrighted works is a copyright violation.
• Copyright law is mostly civil law where the special rights of criminal defendants you hear so much about don't apply. Watch out, however, as new laws are moving copyright violation into the criminal realm.
• Don't rationalize that you are helping the copyright holder; often it's not that hard to ask permission.
• Posting E-mail is technically a violation, but revealing facts from E-mail you got isn't, and for almost all typical E-mail, nobody could wring any damages from you for posting it. The law doesn't do much to protect works with no commercial value.

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DT&G stands for "design, type and graphics." It can also mean "Desktop Graphics" if you prefer. David Pogue of the New York Times, Missing Manual Press and Macworld magazine calls it "Delicous Tips from the Guru!"

For nearly 10 years, two distinctly different versions of DT&G were enjoyed by millions of online readers on the Web, major services, and many BBSs. There was the internet edition, (you're reading now), the Downloadable PDF edition (discontinued several years ago), and the TEXT eZine edition sent each and every month on or around the first.

It is important to understand that DTG first started as the PDF edition which was distributed to all seminar and workshop attendees of Macworld Expo, Dynamic Graphics DGEF Seminars, Multicom, and other providers who hosted founder/editor Fred Showker's seminars. DTG carried additional information, answered questions and built an ongoing relationship with those workshop attendees.

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