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Posts Tagged ‘Copyright’

This is the question I asked yesterday, and it seems I upset a few photographers out there. Sorry about that, but it seems to me that £800 for 1 hours work, then to supply discs with 1 copy of each picture, was a bit over the top. If I commission an artist to paint my portrait, I would not expect him to take the finished product home with him and charge me extra for the occasional look. My son and his wife only wanted someone with “A good eye” to make sure the pics were a good standard. They obviously misunderstood the contract that they would have to pay for additional copies rather than being able to copy them themselves. I am in the wrong business. Thank you for all the interesting replies I received. I normally would not condone trying to bypass the security on the disc to make illegal copies, but £800 seemed a bit of a rip off. Once again, apologies to all you photographers that were offended.

At our graduation ceremony, a professional photographer took photos of me and all of the students while being awarded with a certificate. Does he have the copyright of images of me? Can he distribute these photos?
P.S: This country has no copyright law, at least for foreign products. (TRNC)

I bought two small ceramic cats from a gift shop – designer and manufacturer unknown. I have photographed these in a still-life setting then enhanced the work digitally with Photo Shop, adding further drawn and photographed images of my own to complete the work. I would like to sell the prints in a local gallery. How do I stand with regard to copyright ? Thanks in advance.

I absolutely love to take nature photography. I feel like my work is good enough to sell, and I would like to give it a try on ebay. I don’t want anyone to steal my images from there though so I am wondering what the best way is to copyright my material. I’ve seen people put a word over the image so people won’t want to try to take the image off the site to use as their own. Also, If someone does buy one of my pics, how do I copyright the actual photograph?