Forum: Photography


Subject: Copyright issues...and I'm ticked!!

odie opened this issue on Aug 04, 2005 ยท 27 posts


Nilla posted Fri, 05 August 2005 at 7:16 PM

Thanks for the link Joe! Odie, please post the link to these theives here so that all of us can have a look PLEASE? Do yourself a favor and talk to a lawyer that deals with this kind of thing. I am sorry that this has happened to you. ************************************************** I am including some copyright information for those of you located in the United States, if you have not registered your images you really need to do so. First of all the copyright on any given image is yours (or that of your heirs) from the time you click the shutter on your camera, regardless whether you register it or not, for your lifetime plus seventy years. In order to prosecute those that steal your images, any unpublished works must be registered before the infringement takes place, and published images must be registered witin three months of the first date of publication or before the infringement began. "The process of registering your work is simple. Contact the Register of Copyrights, Library of Congress, Washington DC 20559, (202) 707-9100, and ask for form VA (works of visual art). Registration costs $30, but you can register photographs in large quantities for that fee. For bulk registration, your images must be organized under one title, for example, "The works of Brenda Guiles, Photographer 1985-2005" Another way to protect your copyright is to mark each image with a copyright notice . This informs everyone viewing your work that you own the copyright. This helps in a court of law where the infringer may try to claim "innocent infringement" the I didn't know defense. This information I am sure will vary from country to country. Best of luck to you all and Happy Shooting! Brenda Guiles