Animation And It's Protection Under Copyright

Throughout the history of mankind, the combined artistic affinity has given rise to various forms of artistic expressions. One such form is the use of multiple still pictures to show motion and movement. From as far back as 5000BC Iran, where an old pottery bowl was discovered in Shahr-e Sukhteh which had five serial pictures painted around it showing various phases of a goat leaping up to nip at a tree, to the first flipbook that surprisingly was patented in the year 1868, animation has leapt bounds and is a major part of mainstream media in the modern times. Traditional animation built up and developed throughout the first quarter of the twentieth century, has now transformed into a technical marvel; a separate and essential part of the media industry. With the first traditional animation movie being the 1908 Fantasmagorie by the French artist Émile Cohl who created the film using what came to be known as traditional animation methods later.¹