mnealtx 0 #1 March 9, 2006 Congress is close to passing an "orphan works" act which basically gives anyone the right to use any image, anywhere, for any purpose if it is not copyrighted or watermarked to identify the owner. Take action now to protect your hard work! Quote From the webpage listed below (fair use applies): Orphan works are basically works whose copyright owners cannot be located. The term "Orphan Works" is really a dangerously misleading phrase. It makes it sound as if it includes only a few works that are not valued enough by their creators to warrant taking care of them. That may be true for owners of many kinds of copyrights. However, the reality is that for independent photographers and illustrators, the majority of your published photographs may well become Orphan Works. The reason for that is that, unlike just about every other category of copyrighted works, photographs and illustrations are typically published without any copyright notice or credit to the photographer or illustrator. The one exception to that has traditionally been editorial uses, but even there the trend seems to be away from providing credit lines. As more and more photographs are published on the Internet, credits become even rarer. Worse, even if you registered your photographs at the Copyright Office, there is no mechanism for identifying you or your photograph or for locating you through those records, if the user does not know your name. Details here: http://www.asmp.org/news/spec2006/orphan_faxcall.phpMike I love you, Shannon and Jim. POPS 9708 , SCR 14706 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
namgrunt 0 #2 March 9, 2006 YES..A BIG YES outhers will steal your work..and even call it there own good pictures..hobby great pictures..art ..59 YEARS,OVERWEIGHT,BALDIND,X-GRUNT LAST MIL. JUMP VIET-NAM(QUAN-TRI) www.dzmemories.com Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Icon134 0 #3 March 10, 2006 Quotegood pictures..hobby great pictures..art It a good thing all I do are take good pictures... Livin' on the Edge... sleeping with my rigger's wife... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
dsbbreck 0 #4 March 11, 2006 Yeah, I never take photos that anyone would want.David "Socrates wasn't killed because he had the answer.......he was killed because he asked the question." Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
