Copyright is a hard subject for graphic designers. Copyright is basically the exclusive right of the author of a creative work to control the copying of that work. There are lots of subtleties but that is the gist of it. Images, content, fonts, and intellectual property belong to the creator or whatever company the creator made it for. Works don't necessarily need a copyright notice to be copyrighted. In the USA, almost everything created privately and originally after April 1, 1989 is copyrighted and protected whether it has a notice or not. For default, you should assume that people's work is copyrighted and should not be reproduced unless you know otherwise by means of a copyright notice and the parameters included within the notice. If at all possible, it is easiest to just create your own new work and avoid the hassle of copyright laws.
Most of my information on copyright was found from these two sites given to me in my Document Design class: http://www.templetons.com/brad/copymyths.html and http://www.templetons.com/brad/copyright.html
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