If you do not register your work then it is not important to put copy right since you will not really have a chance to win a law suite if some one takes your work. Water marks unfortunately are very easy to remove unless they are put in a place that and are so large that they distract from the pic. Registering with the copy right office is very easy cost 35.00 I believe it is a couple thousand images, upload as jpg and you have so many sessions to upload your images. The difference is, if some one takes your image and you go through a lawsuit it is a slamdunk you get paid

Good Answer. A slew, indeed. If not a plethora. Or a Cornucopia.

I think you mean 600 pixels in width/height. 600 DPI is a fairly high PRINTING density (DOTS PER INCH), it has nothing per se to do with the size of an image. And sometimes you hear to convert images to 72 DPI, because that is a typical MONITOR or screen DPI, but is way to 'loose' for printing. If you printed a picture at 72 DPI, it would have the resolution of your typical newspaper photo, eg crappy.

It's all very confusioning because computer geeks like to keep everybody befuddled... :) - Makes 'em look more like witch doctors.

No, that's simply not true.

EDIT: I see that the post above has covered most things very well, while I was writing the above.

I've had a LOT of stuff published (it's my livelihood) and I have a law degree, though I've never practised. The only thing I'd add to the post above is that 'publication' can be hard to define. Technically, sending a friend a print could constitute 'publication'.

Cheers,

R.

I too have not heard of that but there's a world of gotchas I haven't heard of. I doubt I will stop using. A few years back I did have a issue with a website and company who pulled some of my cityscape pictures of Atlanta for their website. They had cropped my ©copyright out of the image. Here is what I was told:

To contact them and request the picture be taken down (which I did and they did)

That unless registered with the US Copyright office, I could sue and the picture is legally mine but I would not be entitled to monies for my legal fees. So, no one sues as your outcome willl be a cease and desist and a lot of cost

My pictures are only protected in the US unless registered.....and even those images have limited protection.

If registered with the US Copyright office (which comes with a modest fee and you can send more than one image with your request but each request requires a fee) you are entitled to damages, attorney fees and legally sit in a position where the defendant sits in an indefensible position.

Someone mentioned resize your website images.....for the web. You should regardless of the copyright issues. Monitors are running at 72dpi so your images should be sized to that dpi (it's like trying to put more water in a glass that is full to add more dpi) and I usually stay with 1000 pixels at the longest edge or less. I do this for web space only. Anyone who wants one of my pictures can snag it (even though I disable their mouse clicks).......and with the fractal programs can easily res-up most images to a very printable size at 8x10 with few if any artifacts. In fact, with CS5, their res-us capabilities improved tremendously. OnOne has a fractal program that also does wonders.

I am involved with PPA and will try to get clarification on the © question.

Thanks for the heads up!

Well, this is certainly more complex than I imagined. Unless someone else is really interested in the bottom line, I think I will continue to use the symbol, as many people do, unregistered.

The only trouble I've had, or at least that I was aware of, was someone on Facebook "borrowing" some of my images. I contacted them and they refused to take them down. I contacted FB and within 36 hours they were removed from the other person's page. FB was great. I connected with a real person and they took real action. Thanks for all the research!


















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