And Dag, Are you a rich man collecting from all those who have infringed on your copywrite? I'll bet you don't even work any more because of all the income... :-) Regards, Bob S.
On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 12:09 PM, DagT <[email protected]> wrote: > Den 20. nov. 2010 kl. 22.51 skrev Jaume Lahuerta: > >> ----- Mensaje original ---- >> >>> De: Miserere <[email protected]> >>>> >>> Wow Darren, I never thought my (c) would annoy you so much :-( >>> >>> I've just finished reading through the thread and am surprised at how >>> angry you sound. >>> >>> I'll comment later on when I have some time. >>> >> >> I have to admit that: >> >> 1) I immediately thought on your pictures when I read the initial post. >> 2) I also find that (C)s particularly annoying/disturbing (basically beacause >> they don't allow me to fully enjoy your images) >> 3) I have never found that someone else has used one of my images without >> permission...Maybe if I would, my opinion would be different, so I never >> complained. >> >> Regards, >> Jaume > > > Sorry I´m late (been in Berlin for a few days) but I agree that copyright > symbols and names inside the pictures reduces the experience of the picture. > > I have had pictures stolen in every (?) possible way but I don´t think any of > them would have been avoided with a copyright inside the picture. If it isn´t > large enough to ruin the picture it is easy to remove by some simple editing. > > I think that in most jurisdictions it is clearly illegal once you do anything > to active to remove the symbol and name. Thus the name doesn´t have to be > large. My solution has been to include the copyright in the picture but > outside the frame. If you download any of my pictures you will find that it > comes with a white frame and copyright symbol as well as name in the file but > outside the picture. It is very easy to remove, just crop of the frame, but > doing that will be illegal. > > Another thing is that the links to the pictures on my we site are not stable > so any direct linking will be hopeless once I add a picture in the gallery > (as you can see each time I update the PAW and refer to the same link). > > So, even if I can see the reason for "ruining" the pictures I don´t think it > works and also it is also not necessary. > > DagT > http://www.thrane.name > -- > 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.
