Re: copyright on images

[Miklas Njor <miklasnjor@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dear Fred and fellow photographers!

It's important that we fight to secure our copyrights on the web. The 
problem is that there aren't that many things we can do. Chances of finding 
the pictures which are stolen onto other websites is small, and what are you 
going to do when you find them? And lets turn and look at ourselves. Have 
any of you downloaded MP3s?

Sending an invoice will show them that "we're watching" and actually react 
upon their copyright lawbreaking. But at the end of the day - and at the 
bottom of the invoice - what's your price? How much are you going to demand? 
Amazon.com and Ebay.com get many hits so are we supposed to bill by how many 
potential viewers a photograph has?

I've had my pictures stolen too but they where used on non-commercial or 
private hobby sites, so what I've done is I've sent them an email demanding 
them to write my name alongside the picture or take it off. And they've 
adhered to this. Although there is no difference if it is used by a private 
person or a company Amazon.com and Ebay.com do make a sweet living from 
their sites and it's only fair the pay up.

As as many countries that exist there are different copyrightlaws but the 
bottomline to all are: it's your piece of work.

I would like to hear everyone's opinion on this. And also how they guard 
themselves from "break-ins". I've seen sites where all pictures were cut up 
in fours or sixes so as to complicate stealing.

Miklas, Denmark

P.S. It seems you're more annoyed that they compared your Roundshot 70mm to 
a Horizon 202. Hey, I love my 202. It's won me prizes!





> >
> > When my website was developed I was informed by the webmaster that the
> > copyright 'c'  on my images was not necessary, as they were low res and
> > nothing could be done with them. Contrary to this statement, one of my
> > images
> > was moved to Amazon.com & Ebay.com auction sites and used in such a 
>manner
> > as
> > to imply that the image was taken with a Horizon 202 35mm. My image was
> > shot
> > with a Roundshot 70mm. My site is currently undergoing a major overhaul
> > and
> > will have copyright on all images.
> > Fred Yake

________________________________________________________________________
Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com