Hi Alex,
First off, you need to know that every country has its own legislation
so where you are matters.
Assuming you are in the US or Canada, you do not HAVE to register your
copyright with the government to own the copyright. The copyright
occurs at the moment the camera shutter is clicked. In some countries
getting a registered copyright offers you additional protection in that
you can get more money if you prosecute the case.
Although your images are "only" 400 x 600, they can be used in that
format in other web sites, screen presentations, screen wallpaper, small
calendar prints, postcards, etc. I assume you don't want to give those
away.
Further, not having a copyright notice within the image where the image
can be separated from the notice, doesn't help your case, because after
the first theft, the image gets separated from the ownership, making it
harder to both control, and also leaving any parties who never saw the
copyright notice is a somewhat less ethical if not legal
There are two types of watermarking available. Embedded hidden types
which have to be registered with the company that provides the encoding
for them to be relocated on the internet, and visible watermarks which
make it more difficult for the image to be used, since they take a bit
of work to get rid of. Unfortunately, they also distort the image quality.
One of the reasons I have not yet mounted a website is exactly this
issue of theft. My plan, however, after much through it to do two
things. First, to have a small copyright notice at the edge of the
image, and secondly, to have a visible watermark somewhere within the
image, most like of an embossed shadowed type. If it is in the same
place on each image, and of the same size and intensity, viewers will
begin to be able to somewhat ignore it. It isn't a perfect solution,
but neither is having your best images stolen and used by others
commercially or otherwise.
Art
Alex Z wrote:
> Hi.
> Sorry posting a off-topic issue, hope will not take much bandwidth...
>
> I'm in the process of building my site (actually a fellow web master
> has volunteered to build it for me as her "showcase") with the
> primarily goal is to show my images though online gallery exhibitions
> on the site.
> I ust realized tat it would be desired to figure ou how to protect the
> images from unauthorized usage, at least by some kind of legal way.
> I noticed in may image exhibition sites, besides of regular Copyright
> notice, each image contain some kind of embedded (or watermark) notice.
> The question is how to do that in PS7 ?
> I guess, in most cases people just put the notice and do not proceed an
> official ways regsitering their copyright on images, right ?
> I suspect in this way there is no any legal copyright coverage provided
> insite of putting teh notice on teh site and on top of the images, so
> this is just trying to "scare out" the potential infringer. Am I wrong
> ?
>
> I intend to put there images not larger then 600x400, so I guess it
> would be little commercial value to these in any case, but still would
> do soemthing I mentioned above.
>
> Would be glad to hear your opinions on this topic.
>
> Regards, Alex
>
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