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Do You Incorporate Copyright Reg. Into Your Workflow?
Mark Loundy, Photo Editor
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San Jose | CA | USA | Posted: 7:41 PM on 09.01.11 |
->> Do You Incorporate Copyright Registration Into Your Workflow? What is your process? Answers will be used on the record in an article I'm working on.
--Mark |
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David Scott, Photographer
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Portland | OR | US | Posted: 12:05 AM on 09.02.11 |
->> I probably have the most lame process. Every 3 months I batch resize the previous 3 months images and register them.
I'm very new to Lightroom and really like it for cataloging and finding my images so I'm eager to hear if someone has a process that utilizes Lightroom!
-- Dave |
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Shaun Sartin, Photographer, Photo Editor
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Glenview | IL | | Posted: 9:58 AM on 09.02.11 |
->> Moving from full time newspaper to freelance, there is a huge learning curve, from learning how to value and price your work, marketing 101, accounting, archiving, incorporation, web development and of course shooting. Copyright was one of the last things I had to conquer and have just begun to address.
Nothing like an individual tied to an event you shoot (but not the client) saying he's going to take what he wants and use as he wants to make copyright workflow a big priority of the learning curve.
My idea has been similar to what David is doing, I'll batch process my edits and submit quarterly or so. Curious to see what you find.
Shaun |
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Dominick Reuter, Photographer
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Cambridge | MA | USA | Posted: 12:57 PM on 09.02.11 |
->> Mark - I have a question for for you:
What seems to be the consensus about differentiating published and unpublished work, and how important is it if you mis-categorize an image?
Looking forward to the article.
- D |
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Jason Watson, Photographer
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Palo Alto | CA | USA | Posted: 1:07 PM on 09.02.11 |
->> I register everything I shoot. My published images are tagged in Photomechanic with a color code (i.e. ctrl-1, ctrl-2, etc.). I define published as any image that is uploaded to my Photoshelter enabled website and/or client and/or wire. Unpublished images are left untagged. I use the following file naming convention:
YYYYMMDD - Event Name - Serial Number.CR2/JPG
For my published images the date in this file name is the date of publication. 90% of the time, this is the same as the date of creation for me. When it is not, I rename the files to have the correct date of publication. This helps with the copyright office a lot.
Every 75 days or so, I then go into Lightroom, where I've created a couple of processes -- I select all the untagged images, export them to my unpublished copyright folder, then select the inverse (all the images that I color tagged in PhotoMechanic) and send them to my published folder. I then submit the unpublished images electronically through the the copyright office's eCO website ($35) as a group registration of unpublished images. I then complete an old school form VA paper application for a group registration of photographs, for the published images, burn off a DVD and mail a $65 check. I've had a lot of correspondence with the CO re: electronically submitting groups of published images and my understanding is that they still want it done the old way. I've also heard that they're close (may already be there) to allowing this online, which would be great.
I've detailed my workflow here as well: http://www.jasonowatson.com/blog/2008/12/25/my-copyright-registration-workf.../
Happy registering,
Jason |
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David Scott, Photographer
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Portland | OR | US | Posted: 2:16 PM on 09.02.11 |
->> Wow! Thanks for that info Jason!
-- Dave |
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Mark Loundy, Photo Editor
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San Jose | CA | USA | Posted: 10:58 PM on 09.02.11 |
->> Dominick, What part of "published" are you uncertain about?
--Mark |
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Angus Mordant, Student/Intern
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Sydney | NSW Australia | Australia | Posted: 8:40 AM on 09.03.11 |
| ->> The joys of living in Australia where copyright is automatically that of the author upon the creation of the photograph (oh and it's free and doesn't need to be registered!) |
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Jason Watson, Photographer
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Palo Alto | CA | USA | Posted: 10:48 AM on 09.03.11 |
->> Angus,
Copyright is automatic at the instant of creation, i.e. when one clicks the shutter, in the United States as well. It is not necessary to register to protect one's copyright in the US. However, one of the main reasons for registering in the U.S. is that doing so provides the copyright owner with the option of statutory damages (and recovery attorney's fees) instead of actual damages. In most photography infringement cases, statutory damages will exceed actual damages.
Jason |
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Stanley Leary, Photographer
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Roswell | GA | USA | Posted: 10:56 AM on 09.03.11 |
| ->> Just to add to Jason, the attorney fees for a typical copyright case usually start around $100,000. It takes a long time to process these since research must be done. |
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Mark Loundy, Photo Editor
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San Jose | CA | USA | Posted: 1:59 PM on 09.03.11 |
->> Angus, There have been a number of attempts to remove the registration requirement in the U.S. -- all unsuccessful so far.
--Mark |
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Dominick Reuter, Photographer
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Cambridge | MA | USA | Posted: 8:14 PM on 09.03.11 |
->> I think Jason pretty well addressed it.
Basically with the rise of online storage of images, "published" can be sort of a grey area. Clearly if the image never leaves your computer, it's unpublished, and it can't really be accessed or infringed except by some really persistent folks.
But on photo shelter for example, just one click separates an image from being publicly or privately viewable.
So I guess Im asking, whats the best default option when registering, and again, whats the real downside if you get an image registered in the wrong category?
-- D |
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