Miserere wrote: >And the sky is falling, etc. > >They Are Stealing Our Work!, by Alain Briot: > >http://www.luminous-landscape.com/columns/they_are_stealing_our_work.shtml > >I imagine Mark will enjoy this article Hopefully he can tell us how to >combat these thieves too.
Funny, I just read that article this morning, though I rarely ever look at Luminous Landscape any more. Sadly, there's little one can do to prevent this kind of theft when one's images go up on the web. I give all my images Creative Commons non-profit/non-commercial/Attribution licensing, but that wouldn't be applicable to the kind of theft Alain Briot experienced. What's really shocking is that the university professor supervised this and didn't see anything wrong with it! That's amazing and very, very sad. In my Photoshop and Digital Design courses I end every semester with a copyright essentials class. A "Multimedia Law" course was a required component of my master's degree program at Duquesne University. Worth noting is the fact that if the Alvernia University had just printed the poster without contacting Briot, he probably would never have found out about it. At least with the web there's *some* chance of finding thieves. In print, much less. Salient points: If your work is on the web it can and will be stolen. If you don't *register* your copyright with your country's copyright office, the most you'll be able to do is stop continuing infringement once you find it. I don't put any of my work on the web, even as a PESO, until *after* I have registered my copyright with the U.S. Copyright office ($35.00 per batch and you can fit thousands of photos in a batch). -- Mark Roberts - Photography & Multimedia www.robertstech.com -- 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.
