# Tracing and copyright

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/tracing-and-copyright/190191>\
**Category:** design\
**Created:** [June 9, 2006, 11:16am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/tracing-and-copyright/190191 "2006-06-09T11:16:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![Lounge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a5b964/32.png) [@Lounge](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Lounge)\
**Post date:** [June 9, 2006, 11:16am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/tracing-and-copyright/190191/1 "2006-06-09T11:16:05Z")

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Does anyone around here know how it is with tracing images, do they loose their copyright, and become a new artpiece or?

I am making an animal idfentification program, and I am tracing all images in illustrator.

Hope you can help, or maybe guide me to a site on the subject thats for normal people to understand.

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