Jeff Tsai wrote:
> Bill,
>
> No chill, but I think we should all learn a bit more about how to protect
> our intellectual rights.
>
> 1) If you use Photoshop, be sure to fill out as much ownership information
> and include it with any image posted or submitted.
> 2) Consider using the Digimarc embedded watermarking system to protect your
> images.
> 3) Include a (C)Year Photographer line in the picture (as distasteful as it
> may look).
I notice that they said nothing about the fate of the images they harvest,
after they are thumbnailed. Are the trashed? Or does Lycos (why do I smell
Bill Gates here? Something about his collecting all of the art in the world so
he can charge us to have a look-see, or charge the media for usage rights?)
database them for future use, after we're dead, or not paying attention (same
thing).
We could try to protect the displayed images themselves with perhaps a
password, or an X-check to the requesting email address versus the PDML , but
allow harvesting the thumbnails, which would link to a second set of images
with the word COPYRIGHT 2001 <YOUR NAME HERE> diagonally across each frame!
By the way, I know DIGIMARK comes with Netscape Communicator, but I haven't
found out if it's free, or costs, or is already installed. I know the CHECKING
for a watermark is the default whenever you open an image (I had to turn that
off, as it made work so damn tedious waiting for that process before
displaying the images, that I took, with my digital camera, or I scanned from
a drugstore print, fer cris' sake).
Anybody investigated that yet?
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