photo copyright and website copyright

donkeymusic

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hello,

what sort of copyright protection do you add to your images on your website, just watermarks?? or do you add any copyright messages? just wondering what i would look to add to my site.

thanks
 
None. The images on my website are only 850 pixels wide so not much use to anyone.


Steve.
 
Ones I've had pinched recently for use on a commercial website were downsized to 145 pixels wide.
 
Unfortunately there isn't a way to totally protect yourself, watermarks can be photoshopped out, disabled right click can be undone in Java (I think.) Screen grabs are easily done as well.

I have a regular look for my images using the image search in Bing which is better than Google, there is also another search engine you can use, can't just remember but it searches using your URL.

If you do find your images have been used, take screen grabs, use the internet history URL to see how long, and send them an invoice. Only way to educate people that images are not free.
 
Edtog said:
Unfortunately there isn't a way to totally protect yourself, watermarks can be photoshopped out, disabled right click can be undone in Java (I think.) Screen grabs are easily done as well.

I have a regular look for my images using the image search in Bing which is better than Google, there is also another search engine you can use, can't just remember but it searches using your URL.

If you do find your images have been used, take screen grabs, use the internet history URL to see how long, and send them an invoice. Only way to educate people that images are not free.
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You probably need to start the education prior to them nicking them. I remmeber a case quite a while a go when a photographer went into a picture framersa and saw a 20x16 canvas waiting to be framed. He had taken the photograph but never sold a canvas. He sued the customer but failed because the customer claimed they did not know they were doing anything wrong.

The photographer then sued the picture framers who had also copied the origonal and made the canvas. On this occassion the photographer won because the framer was a professional and should have known he was breaking the law.

So it might follow that you need clear signs on your website informing everyone of the law. This of course will make you seem very unfriendly and might lose you work.

I have customers all the time turn photos over and because there are no stickers on there saying they must not copy they actually announce to me that it must be ok to copy :D:D By this time I have made what I need to out of them and so who am I to worry if they pop along and get them copied.

My opinion is that as soon as you put an image on the web you are inviting theft and so you might as well live with it and get around it in other ways

stew
 
If you want to protect your images from being copied and then PRINTED just lower the dpi before you up load then, use 30dpi on web images, they look fine on screen but print very small.
 
Kerioak said:
850 pixels wide is a lot more than most websites use
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I hate the look of images with watermarks on so I have decided that if I want to show my images, I will do it without watermarks. This is my choice.

I appreciate that there is a small possibility that someone will borrow an image. There is an even smaller possibility that I will find out about it.

If I do.... that's when the fun starts! I have the negatives so I can prove the images are mine.

If someone just wants to download an image to print it and put it on their wall, I'm more than happy with that. If they ask nicely, I may even give them the full resolution file or make a real print from the negative.


Steve.
 
i think really i am aware that is hard to entirely copyright all images/photos, just wondered if you had any copyright message on your site, just to warn others off, if they take notice is a different issue.

thanks
 
whiteflyer said:
If you want to protect your images from being copied and then PRINTED just lower the dpi before you up load then, use 30dpi on web images, they look fine on screen but print very small.
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DPI or more correctly PPI is only used when printing. If you enter 30 in the DPI/PPI box before uploading and do not resample you are uploading the same number of pixels, therefore you have not reduced the quality. Anyone can just download the picture, enter 300 in their DPI/PPI box and print a nice copy.
 
I used to use some software called umark - which is brill, but then someone just said, why not make all your pictures 6x4 so if they downloaded them they couldn't do anything very special with them.. but umark is still a good software
 
Check out iWatermark, some great features as well as wartermarking.
 
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