CheekyGeek wrote:
On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 11:37 PM, Boris Liberman <[email protected]> wrote:
Darren, I am not certain I grok your rant rightly... Are you ranting about the
copyright notices obscuring your view? Or are you ranting about the fact that
people are clueless about copyright?
All of the above. The law of copyright does not require one to RUIN
one's work in order to be afforded its protection. In addition, they
are giving up a potentially significant income from those who choose
to violate their copyright. (As Mark's posts have highlighted).
Anyway, can you please show an example or two (preferably from different
photogs) where copyright notice gets in a way of pleasant viewing...
I think we have all seen it, to various degrees. I doubt that is
necessary to shine the spotlight on any particular individual for
anyone to get the point of the post.
Darren
There are two examples I can think of ... one of them, sadly,
mine...(accidentally)
Because I have my defaults on smugmug set to watermark new additions, I
have occasionally have found a photo of mine that
was accidentally slapped with the default "PROOF" watermark that smugmug
offers instead of my visible but tiny one... I was
horrified when I saw it.. although it didn't have my name on it, it was
on my page. certainly made it hard to view .
The NY TIMES has an elaborate watermark stamped all over certain black
and white photos on line on repros they are selling.
Further, when someone wants to see a closeup of the artwork on the
cafepress site, a faint "SAMPLE" is printed all across the design
(often a photo, of course) .
I haven't read all the posts in this thread (just getting back , really,
from a recent hiatus) but I remember Mark mentioning once that he
protected his stuff by very slightly cropping the edges of all images he
put on the web so that should one of his ended up in a blatantly
commercial venue he could pursue it.
One thing I do though, is not put any of my photos on facebook - I
hardly go there anyway... except one or two.
I use a larger watermark on photos I've taken for things I'm selling on
ebay... because all my photos of things I'm selling are
the actual object up for sale and constitute a lot of annoying work so
"annsan scan" and the date appear on all, but not
obscuring the thing I'm selling.
gabby annie is back!
annsan.smugmug.com
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