Hey big guy. My wife took the best eagle pic ever and I would like to know about copyrighting. She wants to print and distribute the pic, correctly.
IM or call me.

Thanks

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Moved?? To where?


Must have been moved into NP's treehouse. Or possibly his new Ferrari we are going to cruise in this weekend when I get off duty.

Yeah, saw the time stamp. Just making light of it.

Thanks for the info.

Perfect timing since I was taking eagle photos yesterday  One of them was being a gigantic bastard when I was fishing with my family.  Would only fly by when I was casting or pulling in fish.  Of course, my sister thought me swearing at the bird and giving it the finger was hilarious.

There are a couple things on copyright.  You already have rights to the image when you create it.  I have my camera imbed copyright info into the photos when they are taken, plus watermarking them.  That is the bare minimum.  It needs owner name, copyright or the C in a circle and publication dates.  If you have photoshop, if you have the image open, go to file>file info and it should open up an editor to where you can add metadata to the file.  

From there, you can register the image with the copyright office at $35 a pop, last I heard.  That is the big legal iron clad stick.  The other works 99% of the time if you have to issue a DMCA notice, but if push comes to shove, the full legal copyright is good.  Personally, I've never registered anything simply because I don't think I've had any good enough to do it with.

If someone strips the copyright from an image, it's legally defined as a wilful act against the copyright and opens them up to damages.

Nice. Thanks. We have some great pics, is it really worth it? We would like to share/sell some and I don't think they will be stolen and if they are... so what. I just don't want someone claiming them as their own.


Watermark? They are on the computer. Do I like put some water on the screen or something? Wipe it, like with a rag...

Smartass  

Honestly, unless you are making a ton of money off them I'd just imbed data and do a watermark in photoshop.  Pretty easy to do and only takes a few seconds.  Since I take so many photos, I literally made the watermark a paintbrush in PS, then I just have to adjust the opacity of it before clicking.

I do need to update it to 2016 though.  Almost 3/4 though the year and I still am stamping 2015

Got it. Thanks. Not going to make a ton of money, was just going to print a calendar.

Should be fine then

Would have responded sooner, but been getting my ass run ragged this week.  Been fun, but man I hurt.  I'm not getting out of bed come the weekend