Originally posted by racinsince55 That's an interesting comment.
I wonder how many of us copyright our work or place watermarks on them before placing them on sites such as flickr?
I have Lightroom setup to automatically add something like : "©Copyright 2007 - Patrick Kox" to the metadata but I highly doubt that :
1. People are really interested in my curent photos (quality wise)
2. That it would stop someone from using it without credit since you can easely edit the Metadata and remove the copyright notice.
As for a watermark I've read some comments on a forum (don't think it was this one) where people claimed they were ugly and I kinda agree, sometimes a nice picture is ruined by an ugly semi-transparent grey COPYRIGHTED watermark thats painted over it.
Offcourse a smaller copyright notice in the lower left/right corner could be an option (still ugly in some cases IMHO) but that's easely croped-out since the important part of the picture is mostly not in the lower left/right corner of the picture.
Originally posted by racinsince55 And (maybe we have an atty member who can answer this), what protections do you actually have if you copyright and watermark you work prior to posting?
I would also be interested into this but I guess the laws might be diffrent here in Belgium then in the US ?