From: Dave Cohen
I will add a copyright notice in the image area to any of your images that
I put up on the SPORRS Web Site from now on, that are from slides that I
scan. If they are scans that you have done and that you have sent me as
digital files, then saving them as a JPG file again will destroy the
sharpness of the picture, so please send me another file with the notice
already in it if you want it there, or send me a larger raw file in a
format other than JPG, and I will add it. The notice is not required, but
it helps. Here is what it should look like:
Copyright Your Name 1998
I will use the Copyright symbol ('C' in a circle) instead of the word
'copyright', but the word spelled out is OK also (You cannot make the
copyright symbol in most text programs, however in Adobe Photoshop you use
the NUMBER PAD only [NUM LOCK], and hold down the ALT key [OPTION key on a
MAC] and type the numbers: 0169).
You don't have to include the year of first publication in your Copyright
Notice, but a date helps set a time frame in the event of a dispute (which
is rare). You only need to prove the image is yours, and if you have the
original, that's proof enough. Being displayed on the Web is a form of
publication.
The words 'All Rights Reserved' won't help or add anything if placed in the
image area, so I will leave them out, however they are in the SPORRS Web
Site Copyright Notice, which covers everything on the web site. The words
'All Rights Reserved' are too vague to be legally enforceable in the USA,
and for an image alone with a copyright notice already on it, not much use
in the rest of the world - (to retain legal rights, you have to define them
specifically).
I would not be concerned about the little 7K low-res thumbnails not having
a copyright notice; they are so small (actual size) and do not reproduce
well anyway - (impossible to get a good image out of them).
I wouldn't be overly concerned with this issue, just use common sense. If
a problem comes up, I'll deal with it. Any time you are dealing with
anyone else where anything changes hands, you are doing business. There is
no such thing as an interactive hobby that is carefree and free from these
conditions. I seem to have mentioned this previously.
Dave
Dave Cohen
Photographer
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