Hey, Juan, I like that idea.
I have been thinking lately about how to deal with copyright in my old age
<grin>. I am no longer a commercial photographer. It pleases me if someone
wants to hang one of my photos on their wall. But at the same time if there is money
to be made from the image, I would like to get some of it.
So I have been thinking of setting up a form letter to protect my copyright to
send to someone who I find is using it unauthorizedly. That letter would would
give permission to use one copy for personal display, wallpaper, etc. In cases
like the start of this thread it would require them to post a copyright notice
with the image and pay a fee of $1.00. All other uses would require them to
obtain a written license of use, fee negotiable. Otherwise face court action.
Not being a lawyer, but being fairly well read in law (US), this does I think
protect ones rights to ones images pretty completely and at the same times
keeps one from having to seek legal redress over and over. The minimal fee
makes it clear that you allow no one to use your images commercially for free.
And makes it possible to sue for monetary damages in any such case. Note, the
fact that they refused to pay the token fee makes them liable for full
commercial rates.
If one really has no monetary interest in ones images the common license you
posted a link to makes makes complete sense. All it requires is that they
attribute the image to the photographer.
graywolf
http://www.graywolfphoto.com
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Juan Buhler wrote:
All my work is under a Creative Commons license:
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/
So people are in principle free to grab images from my website and use
them, within the constrains of the license.
Haven't seen any of my images used illegally. I think the excess of
watermarks, copyright notices and copy protection measures do more to
alienate regular viewers than it does to protect your rights. But
that's just me.
j
On 9/2/05, Jens Bladt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Do any of you guys use some kind of watermarks to protect agains
unauthorized copying of you images on the internet?
Do you use a brand name watermark and at what price?
Does anybodyu use: http://www.digimarc.com ?
Regards
Jens
Jens Bladt
Arkitekt MAA
http://hjem.get2net.dk/bladt
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