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In the US, Copyright attaches to a design/logo at the moment of creation, however, you can't sue for statutory damages unless it is registered with the U.S. Copyright office. Moreover, logos usually are protected under trademark law, but Copyright law applies as well depending on what you are doing.
Generally speaking, most websites do not take ownership of the IP upon upload, although I'm sure there are some that say they do. What the sites get is a license to distribute, because that is what a website is....a distribution channel.
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I'm a little confused on this, but if I use, say, my website logo as a profile image on sites like YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, etc, will I lose the copyright privilege of that logo to those sites, or will I still retain full control of it? And also, how will I be able to verify that the said logo is my copyright and not someone else's?
