To copyright an image or logo, you can register it with the U.S. Copyright Office. This involves submitting an application, a fee, and a copy of the image or logo. Once registered, you have legal protection against unauthorized use or reproduction.
The Philadelphia Eagles logo is a copyright image. Printing without permission maybe illegal. One can purchase items with the logo on it at their official website.
As an image, a logo is automatically protected by copyright as soon as it is fixed in a tangible medium. If you want to use it in commerce, you may wish to register it as a trademark.
Buy the image. Purchased stock images do not have the logo. A logo or watermark is an indication of who owns the rights to use for that image and you need to obtain that from them either through buying or renting it (for a limited amount of distributions through media). Removing a watermark, logo, or copyright mark yourself, to use the image without being given the right to do so, is stealing.
In order to copyright a logo product, an individual must submit an application to the United States Copyright Office. This organization will judge the uniqueness of the desired logo and offer permission for copyright.
To copyright an image, you can simply create it and it is automatically protected under copyright law. However, to have legal proof of ownership, you can register the image with the U.S. Copyright Office by submitting an application and a copy of the image.
Owning an image or the copyright to an image are the same thing. When you hold the copyright to an image it is yours to do with whatever you will, and you can decide who has permission to use it or not. There is no difference.
Yes, altering an image does not automatically remove its copyright. The original creator still holds the copyright to the altered image.
Yes.
Copyright is automatic, so it will be the date the image was created.
No. You could copyright a drawing or photograph of the logo but the logo itself would have to be protected as a trademark.
No. In the US that requirement was changed in 1989
Using a logo without permission would be trademarkinfringement.