Digital BW, The Print

Thanks Peter - but how depressing.  And it looks like we in the UK will fall
in line behind the US - so what's new!  I feel powerless.

Like you, I don't want to disfigure my own images on the web with visible
copyright information.  I've not looked into using an invisible digital
watermark in my images so don't know how good it is - but presumably the use
of a widely recognised invisible watermarking (I googled and found DigiMarc
for example) would be sufficient to ensure an image could NOT be claimed by
a thief to be "orphaned".  

Steve Gledhill
http://www.virtuallygrey.co.uk

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From: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
[mailto:DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Peter
Marshall
Sent: 09 May 2008 10:11
To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [Digital BW] Copyright control

Steve,

If you put images on the Internet or publish them in books or magazines 
that get to the USA it will apply to you.
Even now the US copyright laws makes it virtually impossible to control 
the use of your work in the US unless you register it with the US 
Copyright Office, preferably before publication on the web or elsewhere 
- as I've found.

It is also only too likely the the UK government will follow the example 
of the US on this (rather than that of Canada, which has a system much 
fairer to unlocatable copyright owners) and UK legislation is expected 
in the next couple of years.

Read what I've written about it on >Re:PHOTO 
http://re-photo.co.uk/?p=285 or Tony Sleep's piece on EPUK that I link 
too - and his comments on my piece. Photographers around the world 
should be very worried about this, and particularly those in Britain.

I'd hate to have to disfigure my own work on the web (I think over 
30,000 images) by adding a large and fairly prominent copyright 
overprint to every image, but I think it is probably the only sensible 
approach if this becomes US law.

Regards,

Peter

Peter Marshall    -    Photographer, Writer: NUJ
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stephengledhill wrote:
> Interesting ...  On the face of it this is a matter confined to the US;
> particularly as it relates to a bill in (presumably) the American
Congress.
>
>  
>
> But,  how about my images where I'm from the UK.  How can a 'foreign' (for
> me) jurisdiction legislate over matters relating to an image whose
copyright
> is owned by me here in the UK?
>
>  
>
> Steve Gledhill
>
> http://www.virtuallygrey.co.uk