Re: selling prints


Virtually *nothing* stated above is correct.

1. Your photograph or other original work that is covered by
copyright law is in fact copyrighted the instant you create it.

2. You may need to register the copyright before initiating certain
types of legal action against someone who violates your
copyright, but registration can be done at any time.

3. Whether
the work is marked as being copyrighted is of no significance,
nor is any date or name affixed to it. (You might want to mark
it anyway, just for identification purposes, but don't confuse
that with whether it is or is not covered by copyright law.)
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Number 1. True but that can be challanged. What is to prevent the person
that uses your photo from copyrighting it? Otherwise if what I said was so
incorrect, what is the purpose of copyrighting anything? Why do we have a
copyright office? Many photographers suggest sending in a collection of
photos and getting them copyrighted.

Number 2. Like I said in (1), what is to protect the person that used your
photo from copyrighting it first?

Number 3. You are not in agreement with what I have read from Rohn Engh,
author of Sell and Resell Your Photos. Also the owner of the Photosource
web site I mentioned. Why if it being marked copyrighted is of no value or
significance, are photos in magazines printed with the name and copyright
info? Why don't they just say, photo by Abe Lincoln. They don't they say,
copyright 2006 Abe Lincoln. I suggest going to the www.photosource.com
website and read Stock Photography 101 and look through the archives for
accurate information. I would take the word of Rohn Engh and the other
photographers that are on that site before I would take the word of someone
that says that "virually nothing I said is correct". Ric in Wisconsin.


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