All images and photoraphs are copyrighted under law and property of Mae and Rodney Wertz. Unauthorized use of these photographs are a violation of copyright law and will be addressed accordingly. Copying of images off the website or duplication of images after they have been printed are considered unauthorized use. 

The bellow information on Copyrights can be found at http://www.copyright.com/ccc/viewPage.do?pageCode=cr10-n

In the United States, copyright protection is provided by the government to the authors of “original works of authorship, including literary, dramatic, musical, artistic, and certain other intellectual works.” This protection is available to both published and unpublished works, regardless of the nationality or domicile of the author.

The Copyright Act provides for the copyright owner to recover damages for unauthorized use of the owner’s works. These damages may include the profits resulting from the infringement, or statutory damages ranging from $250 to $150,000 per willful infringement, as well as legal fees. 

Is content found on the Internet considered to be in the public domain and therefore not copyright-protected?
No. The legal concept of the public domain as it applies to copyright law should not be confused with the fact that a work may be publicly available, such as information found in books or periodicals, or on the Internet. The public domain comprises all those works that are either no longer protected by copyright or never were. Any content in a non-digital form that is protected by copyright will be protected in a digital form. For example, print books are protected by copyright as are electronic books. Analog musical recordings are protected by copyright as are digital musical recordings. A print letter is protected by copyright as is an e-mail letter (both generally owned by the author of that letter or e-mail). Web sites may be protected by copyright as a single work, and also the many different embedded works that are in that Web site may be individually protected by copyright.