Upon reading my post, my mother declared "what is this about copyright? your grandfather never copyrighted this picture." She's right of course, it would have been silly for him to. Legally speaking though, he had these rights whether he wanted them or not, which most people don't realize. The idea was to keep someone from stealing your IP and selling it as their own. This is fine for works of art created in printed form, where something tangible can be lost, and a large capital investment can result in a revenue stream, but applying this same ideology to digital works of art is a stretch, which is what I was trying to point out. If you post a picture on the internet, it gets copied by everyone who visits your website with no cost to either party - a concept that has no real world analogy.
Coincidentally, this week the creative commons organization, responsible for open source licenses used for free software, came out with a new public domain license, which is perfect for artistic digital intellectual property.
http://wiki.creativecommons.org/CC0_FAQ
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