[pov] Re: "anonymous" photographer & photo theft
- From: John Sage <jsage@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: pov@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 06:07:28 -0700
On 11-10-26 09:09 PM, Michael Elenko wrote:
Thanks Rondi for initiating a very engaging thread, and thanks everyone for
building on it.
Viv, it's great you are being conscientious. Having a transparent GIF layer
over an image is the approach used by the Nature Photographers Network on their
high quality website. That along with a watermark is pretty standard. It's
great you are being conscientious.
John's advice to embed one's name/copyright in the EXIF and ITPC metadata
fields is very smart and easy to do. All my images imported into Lightroom
have that performed automatically.
I've pretty much "standardized" at 640 pixels longest dimension @ 150
ppi. Why that? After some research there are modern devices (some
laptops, particularly some mobiles) that use a screen resolution higher
than the old classic 72 ppi.
I guess the degree of image protection should be correlated with how one views
the value of their images. And let's face it, the monetary value of
photographs have dropped phenomenally.
I'm pretty active on Facebook and there's two things I've noted there.
1) Facebook strips out any copyright data from the EXIF data -- in fact
they seem to re-write the EXIF data completely, and
2) Facebook has a breathtakingly draconian (although maybe not unusual)
clause in its "Terms of Service":
http://www.facebook.com/terms.php
2. Sharing Your Content and Information
"You own all of the content and information you post on Facebook, and
you can control how it is shared through your privacy and application
settings. In addition:
1) For content that is covered by intellectual property rights, like
photos and videos (IP content),
-> you specifically give us the following permission, subject to your
privacy and application settings: you grant us a non-exclusive,
transferable, sub-licensable, royalty-free, worldwide license to use any
IP content that you post on or in connection with Facebook (IP License). <-
This IP License ends when you delete your IP content or your account
unless your content has been shared with others, and they have not
deleted it."
"...you specifically give us ... a non-exclusive, transferable,
sub-licensable, royalty-free, worldwide license to use any IP content
that you post..."
mkay...
- John
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