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.

Paul


On Apr 4, 2010, at 8:03 PM, paul stenquist wrote:

> I don't trouble myself with copyright crap. If someone wants to steal your 
> photo they will. But if you post only low-res pic on the web, I can't imagine 
> anyone who can afford to pay would bother to steal it. People who buy my 
> photos always abide by the terms of agreement. Haven't ever experienced a 
> problem with that. I can't imaging why anyone would lose any sleep over 
> copyrighting itty-bitty web images.
> Paul
> 
> On Apr 4, 2010, at 7:38 PM, John Sessoms wrote:
> 
>> I've been looking through the catalog of digital images I've accumulated 
>> since I started shooting with the *ist-D; part of my reorganizing and 
>> finally trying to do REAL backups, figuring out what I might have that's  
>> worthy to go in a portfolio & such.
>> 
>> For the most part, I don't have copyright information in the metadata. 
>> 99-44/100% of these will probably never be seen. Anything I post online or 
>> submit has or will have the copyright when I send it out.
>> 
>> However, I was wondering.
>> 
>> What do y'all do about copyright information when storing your files?
>> 
>> Do you go ahead and change ALL the file info to "copyrighted" and append 
>> metadata? What info do you include beyond (c) date name?
>> 
>> Is it worth going back through the whole catalog and updating copyright? It 
>> *IS* fairly easy to do in Bridge, but is it actually a good idea?
>> 
>> What about registering copyright? I've been looking on the Copyright Office 
>> website, and it's going to take a little figuring out. Seems like there's a 
>> limit to how many you can do at one time, but they don't make it clear how 
>> many that is. It looks like the eCO thing is time limited - you can 
>> copyright as many as you can type in the info in a half hour?
>> 
>> And they don't take PEF files, it's gotta be JPEG or PSD, which means I'm 
>> going to have to go through a batch conversion process before I can submit 
>> them.
>> 
>> Anyway ... your thoughts?
>> 
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