How is the authorship of images confirmed?

Question

Copyright

The wife is engaged in drawing images of various subjects, and quite well. We ourselves have not yet encountered copyright infringement, but there are many stories from acquaintances, from whom, for example, images were taken without asking, printed and sold.
Actually, the question arose - how is the authorship of images (not photos) confirmed? Is it necessary and possible to register them somehow, or is it done "after the fact"?

Answer 1

What is he painting for? How's the hobby? Or for sale?
Are they posted online?
If for sale, then either use ready-made resources for selling images. (I myself am not connected with this, I know that there is) - everything is set up there, as they say, the image itself on the preview is covered with watermarks, and upon purchase it is given without them. The person bought, you got the money, the site got a commission.
If you have your own resource where you post images, then you can implement such a scheme yourself, it is given for viewing, with watermarks + the image size is worse. When paying - a full-fledged image is given.
In both cases, you need to use the license agreement. Depending on what and how you want.
If just Images are located on a personal site, just for demonstration - without the purpose of earning - then enough, your logo in the corner. And with a note, for use on your resources, a link to the source is required (if used for commercial purposes).
and so on ... There are many nuances, it all depends on the situation.

Answer 2

Actually, the question arose - how is the authorship of images (not photos) confirmed? Is it necessary and possible to register them somehow, or is it done "after the fact"?

The authorship of the images can be confirmed by showing the very process of creating the work - they began to draw - photographed. And so at every stage.
Art. 1257 of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation "A person indicated as the author on the original or copy of the work or otherwise in accordance with paragraph 1 of Article 1300 of this Code is considered its author, unless otherwise proven."
Those. it is rational to put on the drawing either your real name or a pseudonym.
If you want to register (deposit), then you are in RAO - _ www.rao.ru/index.php/pravoobladatelyam/deponirovan...

Answer 3

Hmm... the so-called watermarks, digital signatures, that's all that came to mind on this topic :)

Answer 4

Depositing is a very stupid and expensive thing, it does not confirm authorship, but fixes the date when you called yourself the author, i.e. your authorship can still be challenged if the relevant evidence is presented, and the court will consider the deposit document as one of the evidence, along with other evidence.
So the artist has two main tasks:
to preserve the evidence of creative activity (working materials, including "rejected" versions of the copyright object, source materials, information collected in order to create your work, etc.);
fix a temporary priority for the possession of a specific object of copyright at a specific time.
Those. save all sketches, put a date and signature on everything.
If the case goes to court, that will be enough. As a last resort, an examination will be carried out.