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Hi Everyone,

Sorry if this has been asked before but i see more and more people copyrighting the pictures they have taken. As im new to photography im not sure how all this works. When should you copyright a photo and what is tere purpose and how do you go about it?
 
Usually to deter image theft - not that it always works

I've recently started adding a watermark but for me it's more a marketing tool :)
 
The person who takes the photograph owns the copyright. You don't have to 'copyright' it, register it, or do anything else.

The only exception is where the photograph was taken in the course and scope of your employment. There have been some arguments about what this means in practice, and it isn't restricted to people employed as photographers, or with photography in their job description.

I don't know if this is of any interest to you, but selling a photograph or giving someone else the right to use it for a particular purpose, doesn't change the copyright unless you agree to transfer it as part of the arrangement.
 
JohnBW83 said:
I doubt i would get to the standard where people would want to buy my photographs :)
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You really never know.

I took a quick shot once where it was basically just a test shot. I got home, very nearly deleted it as I viewed it but decided I quite liked it. I stuck it up on my blog, with the story behind it and why I decided I liked it.

A few weeks later I was contacted by a large coprporation wanting to use it in an international ad campaign, I got five figures for it :)
 
graphilly said:
You really never know.

I took a quick shot once where it was basically just a test shot. I got home, very nearly deleted it as I viewed it but decided I quite liked it. I stuck it up on my blog, with the story behind it and why I decided I liked it.

A few weeks later I was contacted by a large coprporation wanting to use it in an international ad campaign, I got five figures for it :)
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Five figures!....what company was it, i have a bunch of test shots!

Andy.
 
I was main photography to a wedding of a wedding photographer :/ and it is the first time i have ever seen this. Bride (Wedding photographer) lean't her camera to a friend for the day to get a few shots. she has since watermarked and copyrighted those images under her own business name. I ask her why she did this and she said she owns the rights as it's her camera the images were taken on. I said no your wrong but shes female so had it own way. Just made me laugh how few "pros" don't know the rights behind an images
 
DannyDMR said:
I was main photography to a wedding of a wedding photographer :/ and it is the first time i have ever seen this. Bride (Wedding photographer) lean't her camera to a friend for the day to get a few shots. she has since watermarked and copyrighted those images under her own business name. I ask her why she did this and she said she owns the rights as it's her camera the images were taken on. I said no your wrong but shes female so had it own way. Just made me laugh how few "pros" don't know the rights behind an images
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Lol thats like saying a lottery win is yours because you loaned the winner your pen to fill out the ticket.
 
If a company commissions you take photo's for them, and also gives you the camera to take them on, who owns the copyright?
 
HMansfield said:
If a company commissions you take photo's for them, and also gives you the camera to take them on, who owns the copyright?
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You do, unless the contract states otherwise.

UK law changed around 1988 - 1989. Prior to that, the client who commissioned the photographs owned the copyright, but the photographer now owns the copyright by default. It doesn't matter who owns the camera.
 
there was no contracts so the person taking the pics owns them, Makes me laugh shes actually advertising her wedding photography business with images of herself getting married :/
 
I would pretty much guess the OP isnt talking about copyright... watermarking would be my guess..
 
Live with it :thumbs:
 
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