I'm not a copyright attorney so I'm unable to answer any questions regarding copyright. Your best bet is to get in touch with an intellectual property attorney. Now that said there are a lot of misconceptions and myths that surround copyright and the Internet. Also there is a lot of confusion about trademarks, that confusion crosses over to copyright, and that's when things get confusing. For the sake of space and techno language, I'm going to stick with copyright.
Bottom line is if I make it, I own it. No one else can claim they own it and no one else can say that they "didn't know" because that is bunk. You can't copyright an idea however; if this were true, there would be only one of everything. Now how does this fit with graphics and the Internet? Simple, when you right click on an image and choose save picture as you have taken something that doesn't belong to you unless the creator has specifically told you that you can and what rights the creator is granting you if you do save that image or text to your hard drive. If someone grants you personal use, but you can't add it to a collection or use it at a craft fair or someplace else for monetary gain, then you use it for personal use only. People put a lot of hard work in creating their images, writing text or stories and coding the HTML, all components that make up a web page. Those things belong to the creator and should absolutely be honored. Don't send them through email, don't save the pages to your hard drive and then remove any identifying marks then say, "You don't know who wrote this or that or created the graphics. This happens more than you know.
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