On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 12:51 AM, Christine Aguila <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Everyone: > > I'd very much like to know everyone's views about something that has just > happened to me; here's the story: > > I gave a nice print--as a gift--to a friend. My friend's father-in-law took > the print to get it framed, and come to find out, he also made some scans of > the print and gave them to family members. I'm just going to come out and > say it--I'm really irked by this. I often sign my prints in the lower right > hand edge, but I didn't on this print. > > How irked would you guys be? What, if anything, would you guys do or say? > > Thanks in advance. > Cheers, Christine
I think for me how I react would depend on what the print was of. If it was a "family snapshot" sort of thing I wouldn't worry about it. It's not something that's of saleable value to you, something you did specifically for these people, and I guess I can understand that they view it as "theirs" to do with what they please. I'd let it go and chalk it up to experience and never give those people another print again. ;-) If, on the other hand, it's an "artful print", something that would be obviously (to them) saleable or otherwise of interest to the general population, then I would have a gentle chat with them about copyright laws and of how you gifted them that print alone, not the rights to further distribute it. Look at it as an opportunity to educate the ignorant so they don't do it again to you or anyone else. And, as others have said, if you don't have one already, get a copyright stamp and stamp the back of every photo you distribute. cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
