Has Christian Weston Chandler really "copyrighted" Sonichu?

Question

I mean he says he has but it does'nt make sense.

Answer 1

When you create something a picture, photos or in writing you own the copyright to it. There is no need to register your work in any way, the copyright is yours. That means that if you doodle something on a paper while talking in the phone you have the copyright on it, or if you are a blogger then all you write in your blog (your own material of course) is copyrighted to you.

Any one that uses your doodle or copies what you put in your blog without your consent is violating the copyright. If you copy and paste what someone else has written they you violate the copyright. This happens often with poems, quotes and so on. If you post a picture that you did not make or a photo you did not take then you are violating the copyright. This is very common online, people take pictures from any source to use them.

Then you have the fan based copying, people that draw Donald Duck and call him Donald Duck is violating the copy right that Disney have on the character. If you draw a duck that's similar but not exactly like Donald Duck and call him Charlie then it's not a violation of the copyright. There are of course rules about how much different it has to be to avoid violating the copyright.

From what I can find C.W.C created Sonichu and by that he owns the copyright. He has based the character on existing characters but he has still made it original enough and use a name that's not the name of the characters he based it on.

It makes sense to me. Many artist is fed up with people stealing their work or copying it when they don't have the right to do so. They don't go on a crusade to stop it as C.W.C seems to do but that doesn't mean that they think it's OK for anyone to steal their work.