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    Sitting in a Leaky Dingy Michael Fanelli's Avatar
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    Re: Can someone help me with Copyrighting?

    Quote Originally Posted by JMiller1070
    I was wondering if someone could give me some pointers on how to copyright my photos to post on the web. I'm extremely new to photography and would like as much guidance and imput as I can get.

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    Everyone is assuming that you want to know how to place a copyright notice on/in an image. I'll just add a different twist: you already have a copyright on anything you post whether or not you explicitly say so. A copyright registration merely makes it easire, sometimes, to prove the point. Whether or not you register a copyright, getting anywhere in the legal system to defend a copyright takes lots of time and money.
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    Re: Can someone help me with Copyrighting?

    The Copyright Office has a form VA you can use to copyright a collection of unpublished photographs. They will accept a CD of jpegs, I'd send a bunch of contact sheets with small thumbnails since nobody knows how long CD's will last.

    It costs $30 for each collection.

    http://www.copyright.gov/forms/formvai.pdf

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    Re: Can someone help me with Copyrighting?

    You can also register your entire website with the Copyright Office. Circular 66 helps to explain the process: http://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ66.pdf

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    Re: Can someone help me with Copyrighting?

    Quote Originally Posted by beth russell
    You can also register your entire website with the Copyright Office. Circular 66 helps to explain the process: http://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ66.pdf

    Beth
    Hello Beth...and Welcome to PR. To all others, this is the person who gave the seminar on contracts that I went to the other night. She is very knowledgeable on the subject of legal matters as they pertain to art!!! In just a short 2 hours she taught me a lot about contracts and copyrights.
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    Re: Can someone help me with Copyrighting?

    Quote Originally Posted by danag42
    The Copyright Office has a form VA you can use to copyright a collection of unpublished photographs. They will accept a CD of jpegs, I'd send a bunch of contact sheets with small thumbnails since nobody knows how long CD's will last.

    It costs $30 for each collection.

    http://www.copyright.gov/forms/formvai.pdf
    One thing I recently learned about "compilations" whether they be contact sheets or CD's/DVD's etc...each item in the compilation must be "unpublished". Once published (which includes posting on the web for general viewing), then it must be copyrighted seperately.
    Make sure to read the application very carefully.
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    Re: Can someone help me with Copyrighting?

    Quote Originally Posted by Michael Fanelli
    Everyone is assuming that you want to know how to place a copyright notice on/in an image. I'll just add a different twist: you already have a copyright on anything you post whether or not you explicitly say so. A copyright registration merely makes it easire, sometimes, to prove the point. Whether or not you register a copyright, getting anywhere in the legal system to defend a copyright takes lots of time and money.
    Michael has his law precisely correct. Copyright is automatic and does not need to be registered.

    He is also right about cost to defend copyright and to be precise about $50,000 to begin legal action for copyright infringement.

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