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Hi,
I know this overall topic has been done many, many times here but I'm coming at this from a slightly different angle.
Background:
I want to put my photos online, some will be private and so shared only with family and friends, (pics of daughter, birthdays etc), and then there will be some photos that I'm happy to be in the public domain and looked at, commented on, critiqued etc. However, should, (and this is a massive should), I get a worldy shot / be in the right place at the right time for something decent I put it online as part of my collection and it gets used elsewhere...
What website / procedure / method is the best to protect / make 'save picture as' type activity hard / track photo usage or even offer it as an image to buy as I'm sure it's pretty impossible to stop, but like anything the harder you make it the less likely it will happen to you.
Just as important, which sites let you keep the copyright and what ones have buried in their T&Cs that they can use the image, (ie facebook etc)
or am I expecting too much and it's two separate things, ie use Flikr and the like for private and meh images that you don't care about being used and another site for 'selling' images...
problem with putting your copyright on a photo is that it generally either can easily be cropped out or it ruins the viewing of the photo...
Then, and this is the slightly left field part, would you or should you use your own name on the aforementioned flikr etc site or a pseudonym. Does this then make it harder to prove it's your work or for people to ask to use your work???
Over to you, oh knowledgeable members of TP
I know this overall topic has been done many, many times here but I'm coming at this from a slightly different angle.
Background:
I want to put my photos online, some will be private and so shared only with family and friends, (pics of daughter, birthdays etc), and then there will be some photos that I'm happy to be in the public domain and looked at, commented on, critiqued etc. However, should, (and this is a massive should), I get a worldy shot / be in the right place at the right time for something decent I put it online as part of my collection and it gets used elsewhere...
What website / procedure / method is the best to protect / make 'save picture as' type activity hard / track photo usage or even offer it as an image to buy as I'm sure it's pretty impossible to stop, but like anything the harder you make it the less likely it will happen to you.
Just as important, which sites let you keep the copyright and what ones have buried in their T&Cs that they can use the image, (ie facebook etc)
or am I expecting too much and it's two separate things, ie use Flikr and the like for private and meh images that you don't care about being used and another site for 'selling' images...
problem with putting your copyright on a photo is that it generally either can easily be cropped out or it ruins the viewing of the photo...
Then, and this is the slightly left field part, would you or should you use your own name on the aforementioned flikr etc site or a pseudonym. Does this then make it harder to prove it's your work or for people to ask to use your work???
Over to you, oh knowledgeable members of TP
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