HeartWind is a registered trademark of HeartWind Studio, protected by international law. License is granted to view this site using a web/internet browser. Any other use, without written permission, constitutes infringement. All art works referenced by the coding of the pages constituting this site are copyright 1984-2004 by Elaine Greywalker and/or HeartWind Studio. All rights reserved.
Freelance artists' livelihoods depend on their ability to claim authorship for the pieces they produce. They build their reputations—and therefore their ability to attract clients and build a career—on the basis of past performance. Indeed, artists' careers succeed or fail by their skill and style in communicating the ideas and messages society needs to disseminate. Artists' rights to control the usage of their original creative art is defined primarily by copyright law, which also provides the basis for pricing and fair trade practices.
Copyright law flows from the U.S. Constitution, Article 1, Section 8*, and was created by Congress to extend to artists and other creators limited monopolies that provided economic rewards and protections to artists and other authors. This encourages dissemination of ideas, thereby serving the public interest.
— GAG Handbook and Pricing Guidelines, 9th Edition, pg.13
NOTICE: HeartWind, HeartWind Studio, HeartWind Arts, HeartWind Online Gallery, HeartWind Gallery are all trademarks of HeartWind Studio and Elaine Greywalker. The trademark "HeartWind" is registered in the State of Virginia. Elaine Greywalker was previously known as Elaine Bleach. Use of these marks by others constitutes infringement.
This site and the art work contained in or referenced by the links are copyrighted according to the Laws of the United States of American and the Berne Convention. This means you may not reuse any art or make derivative works from the art, graphic designs, writings or the site design without permission of the artist, Elaine Greywalker. The scripting, where original, is also copyrighted or distributed under the Creative Commons agreement.
What is Copyright?
It is the right to make copies of any kind whether for profit or not. You can find out more:
- United States Copyright Office (copyright page)
- Graphic Artists' Guild
- What not to do! Brookfield Communications vs. West Coast Entertainment (view the FindLaw case docket or view the Harvard summary of the case). Ruling from the United States District Court for the Central District of California—that it is illegal to put someone else's business name or trademark in your <META> tags or hidden elsewhere in order to fool search engines to find your site instead. Also ruled it was illegal to use someone else's trademark on a web page and illegal to create a web product using someone else's trademark.
- The Berne Convention is a reciprocal agreement between the United States and other countries (all of western Europe, many African, Asian and South American). This means all countries honor each others laws respecting copyright and trademark.
- You might also want to check out the Trademark Section of the Legal Information Institute of Cornell University.
