Re: [artshow_photo] The Stolen Scream, and copyrights (again)

Hello,

> And there is a further 'free' protection that you can add to your work
> published on the net. Just add the standard copyright statement:

> ©2011 by Joe Photographer all rights reserved

> And if that is altered or removed then THAT act activates the DMCA and you
> can sue under that and recover legal fees and statutory damages with no
> formal copyright office registration. In the US only so far as I know.

I didn't come across any extra legalities with DCMA and removal of the
copyright notice when I was last looking. But I am in the UK and the US
may be different.

If the image was created after April 1989 it is automatically covered by
the Berne copyright convention and image should still be covered by
copyright laws regardless of whether or not it has a copyright
notice on it. But it does no harm to "remind" the viewer that it is
copyrighted.

The "all rights reserved" is no longer legally needed in most places,
but there's no harm in including it.

And make sure you do use the word "copyright", or the proper copyright
symbol "©" (alt-0169 on Windows) and not "(c)" as that is not "valid".

Without looking, there was the orphaned works bill that someone was
trying to get pushed through. I can't remember if it was UK, US or
worldwide now. It seems to have gone quiet, so I don't know what
happened with it.

That would have meant any image without a copyright and/or author info
either visible in the image or in the meta data would be considered an
orphaned work and open for anyone to use.

Obviously people seem to have forgot that these are often easily removed
or altered.

> I just run an action to add it and my email address to the white frame
> border I have on all my work on the web. The email address is protection
> against the orphan works act if that ever gets rammed thru.

I use breezebrowser pro, which easily allows me to batch add extra IPTC
tags and text or image watermarks.

--
Andrew Mills

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