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Is it pretentious to watermark images for copyright protection?
zorro wrote:
Hello there, My girlfriend set up a little web gallery of her art work. She has a watermark on all her images but now she's wondering if people will think she's being pretentious. After all, she is an amateur and no one's heard of her in the art world. We agreed it's legitimate to protect her work, but does a watermark really make a difference? I saw a lot of web galleries and often images have no watermark. And beside the pretention issue, a watermark also spoils the image you want to show. 1. First off, web phots are relatively small, so have limited reproduction value (except in other web pages...). Many photo sites intentionally keep their photos pretty small for this reason. (no larger than 500 - 600 pixels). 2. Watermarks can be quite discrete, but I prefer none at all. 3. Copyright does not require a watermark, or even a notice on the webpage. 4. It is, however, prudent to put a general copyright notice on the webpages referring to the images. A reminder to those who don't pay much attention to rights. (Eg: the younger generation who freely exchange music/video/software without much care for copyright). -- -- r.p.e.35mm user resource: http://www.aliasimages.com/rpe35mmur.htm -- r.p.d.slr-systems: http://www.aliasimages.com/rpdslrsysur.htm -- [SI] gallery & rulz: http://www.pbase.com/shootin -- e-meil: Remove FreeLunch. -- usenet posts from gmail.com and googlemail.com are filtered out. |
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Is it pretentious to watermark images for copyright protection?
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On Feb 6, 7:12 am, Alan Browne wrote: Though I have not sold a photo for publication I've wondered if potential publishers consider photos that have been shown on web pages as still being qualified as available as "first time published" photos. It seems that this may compromise a photos acceptance as not before published. Just looking at the very high quality photography at http://photo.net/gallery/photocritiq...re_prefs_p= 0 might answer your question. And one fellow there had his photo.net phot of an eagle grabbing a fish published in Nat Geo as a "write in". There are many categories of publishing such as news ("scoop", then freshness [on top of relevant]) counts most. So if it's been published as scoop, it still has life as fresh [embargoed for a time before publishing by rivals], then background and archive). Catalog/stock photos used for advertising and editorial use can have limitless life and re-usability (depending on terms). (This covers so wide a range of photography as to defy writing about here). Fashion photography is a bizarre world of advertising and editorial - freshness counts, but print-print-print counts even more. Short shelf life other than rare and exceptional shots/series. Art may be exclusive, eg: the web version is to advertise it and print runs guaranteed to be limited to a certain number of copies by the publisher/artist - or not. And more, and more, and variations on all. -- -- r.p.e.35mm user resource: http://www.aliasimages.com/rpe35mmur.htm -- r.p.d.slr-systems: http://www.aliasimages.com/rpdslrsysur.htm -- [SI] gallery & rulz: http://www.pbase.com/shootin -- e-meil: Remove FreeLunch. -- usenet posts from gmail.com and googlemail.com are filtered out. |
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