> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > John Sessoms > ... > It's not that hard to recognize professional work. Especially if it's > stamped with copyright notices on the back. > > And doubly especially if it's a regular customer who brings in > under-exposed disposable cameras every week or prints out a hundred or > more low resolution, high compression jpeg images from the camera card, > every one of them with true spawn-of-satan red-eye, despite my having > showed her again and again how to use the automatic red-eye reduction > feature in the kiosk, after showing her how to turn on the red-eye > reduction mode in her digital camera ... and now she's back with a > professionally printed CD bearing a local studio's label or trying to > copy gorgeous, beautifully lit 5x7s ... > > I've even had customers trying to copy images that had "proof - do not > copy" overprinted on the front. > > All I need is reasonable proof the copyright holder gives permission for > it to be printed. > > A signed release on the studio letterhead saying something like "I'm the > photographer whose copyright notice appears on these images, and I give > the bride and groom permission to reproduce these photos for their own > personal use." ... signed "Joe Blow" for "Joe Blow Photography" > > I'm protected and the customer is happy.
Ok, now I understand what you were after :-). Actually, this is what a respected shop owner or employee would do no matter what the law exactly says. Antti-Pekka ________________________________________ Antti-Pekka Virjonen Computec Oy www.computec.fi -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
