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Resources on what to do when someone infringes on your copyright
A collection of good sources of information on what to do when someone steals your images, i.e. infringes on your copyright. Help! I’ve Been Infringed! from http://www.photolicensingoptions.com
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New Year’s resolution: take care of your copyright
The Photo Attorney is a great blog if you are interested in the legal issues around photography: copyright, intellectual property etc. It is written (mainly) by Carolyn E. Wright. Her latest post has a...
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Registering Your Copyrights Using the eCO System
In the US there is a system of “registering your copyright”. It does not mean that you have to register to be the owner of the copyright of the images / photographs that you do. But it does mean that...
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Pinterest – a new copyright thief on the block?
One more site that has an interesting approach to intellectual property A new site that seems to be enabling and encouraging copyright theft has appeared: Pinterest. Sean Locke, a photographer with an...
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Not so easy to pin it down – more on Pinterest
A few days ago I wrote about an article by Sean Locke on the new site Pinterest that seems like yet another photo copyright infringement tool. Sean has written a follow-up on his blog, More Thoughts on...
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The new Getty Images watermark
A trivial protection tool turned brilliantly into a marketing tool! Getty Images has taken a simple overlay image, the watermark, and turned it into a something that not only protects your image but...
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A few reasons why Creative Commons for pictures is a bad idea
Here’s a question I just had from a friend when I told him that by using Creative commons he is loosing too much control of his images: “You say I shouldn’t use Creative Commons, but what do you...
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Useful info on copyright, licensing and pricing from ASMP
Following the two recent posts on pricing and licensing I had a suggestion from photographer Judy Herrmann to take a look at all the information that the American Society of Media Photographers (ASMP)...
View ArticleThe joys and dangers of photos on Flickr – stolen photos
Flickr is certainly an important player in the world of both amateur and professional photography today. For a photographer it can be a great tool to show his photos, although I have not really started...
View ArticleWhat to do when your photos are stolen
It happens to everyone. Perhaps it happens more and more often these days. Either because people think that images that they find online are free to use (totally wrong) or because they think that the...
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