On Apr 4, 2010, at 9:58 PM, Mark Roberts wrote: > John Sessoms wrote: > >> From: paul stenquist >>> That should read "I can't imagine why anyone would lose any sleep >>> over copyrighting itty-bitty web images. >>> >>> And I can't. There are many things worthy of our concern these days. >>> This is not one of them. >> >> But, in my position - hoping to transition to making an income from >> photography at some future point - do you think it's worth going ahead >> and backfilling the copyright into the meta-data in my existing >> unpublished catalog? >> >> Or, I guess turn the question around ... is there any reason I shouldn't? > > Nope, there's no reason why you shouldn't. > > In fact, there's reason why you should: Not all images swiped from web > pages are taken in deliberate theft. Many - most, I would wager - are > taken in naive ignorance of copyright laws. The reason for embedding > copyright information isn't to prevent image theft or to catch image > thieves, it's to allow people further down the chain who *want* to > honor copyright properly )or find the original photographer for other > reasons) to contact you. > > That's why I always include copyright EXIF and a visible watermark in > my photos. Not as a deterrent to thieves but as an aid to honest > people who didn't see the photo in its original context. > I agree that it certainly can't hurt, although I would think going back to embed copyright EXIF in older pics is probably a waste of time. It's not likely that someone iss going to find your photo in a secondary source -- like a commercial webiste -- and try to track down the source. People looking for art tend to go to places where there's a lot of it'' flickr or photo.net. If they want to go legit and buy the image, the shooter's contact info is available, and copyright information is noted on the site. Of course there is a chance that someone might pick up a photo from a second or third hand source, but quite frankly, I haven't heard of it happening.
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