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| Over the years there have been lots of discussions about copyrights and protection and registration of copyrights offering additional protection.
Here are a couple of sites that explain that yes...as soon as you take the photo you can put (C) on it (that's supposed to be in a circle) as you can say it's copyrighted, but registration of the copyright provides further protection and gives you additional ammo ("HEY guy, you are using a photo that is copyright registered" and you can get much more $$ damage should you take the legal route....as I did). Just thought these were interesting. First is about the Berne Convention fo the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works and the second site is just a site that says what advantages copyright registration has. HAPPY FRIDAY!
http://biztaxlaw.about.com/od/copyrightsandtrademarks/f/whyregistercop yrite.htm |
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| BUMPING MYSELF...can this get incorporated into our FAQ under "How do I protect my photographs?" or something similar? K |
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- Posted by joshy46013 (My Page) on Mon, Mar 14, 11 at 7:49
| Kristi, Thank you for this! What happened with your photo that you had to take the legal route? It's not very often you hear someone actually going through with it ;) Josh |
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| It's a very long story, but a printing company had used a copyright REGISTERED photo of mine in an unauthorized manner. It was an underwater photo that was particularly interesting. I gave them many opportunities over 3 months to make it right and pay me for the use. When they called 7 days after the deadline, I told them to call my lawyer...the guy was shocked! A local lawyer had taken the case pro bono since it was a slam dunk...the photo was registered and there was nothing to fight!(see how easy that is)...and he got me more than $10,000 in damages from them (he took his 30-40%), but if they had paid as they should, it would have cost them about $1200. IF I had registered the photo just a few months earlier (my mother was dying and I had better things to do) I could have ruined the company...or so the lawyer says. SO...think about registering your work. It's not that expensive and nice "insurance". I speak from actual experience! |
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| bump...as this may help some who are having photos used without authorization. I don't even know that Josh read this scenario as I got no acknowledgement that he had... K |
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