Same here. I don't bother with the copyright in the meta file, but i put the water mark on stuff that goes on my site. People have stolen a lot form me in the past and printed 8x10's from the low res web files, woth water mark still on the shot. But horse people are known for being incredibly cheap and dis honest so what the hell.:-)
Dave On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 8:03 PM, paul stenquist <[email protected]> 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? >> >> -- >> 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. > > > -- > 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. > -- Documenting Life in Rural Ontario. www.caughtinmotion.com http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ York Region, Ontario, Canada -- 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.
