User blog comment:Semanticdrifter/Understanding Fair Use/@comment-166269-20121127192731

Excellent write-up. One thing I'd like to point out that I've seen from time to time is the misconception that if you create an image of a copyrighted work yourself, that image is automatically yours; I have no idea where this misconception arises from but it's blatantly untrue. As I've said elsewhere, a copyrighted work still belongs to the original copyright holder, regardless of who creates the image, under what circumstances, or what further modifications are made to the image. Unless I'm mistaken, if you create a new composition, you hold the copyright to that composition, but even then, you don't gain any copyright claim for otherwise-copyrighted works you used to create the composition.