Re: Googling Self - Photography

**"* P* L* <t*@spamfodder.com>**

> >> >  I Google myself too, as I suspect most writers do now. And I too often
> >> >find websites and so on that are using articles of mine without my
> >> >permission. But I like to see this because in my case it is just that
> >> >much more free PR. I can't afford to advertise so free PR is the ticket.
> >
> >Here's a question tagged onto Doug's message, but more generally intended
> >for photographers.
> 
> Chris - I note that the Plants Magazine website uses a watermark on all his 
> photos. You might be able to do the same.

Hi Doug,

   For a while I was using Digimarc watermarks (when it was free), but now
   they want an obscene amount of money to embed their watermarks.  For the
   number of photos that I have available at hort.net it would cost me
   thousands of dollars each year for their service. 

   I do wonder what the point of these watermarks are, though.  Many of
   these people stealing images could care less -- there really are
   no legal consequences since I'm not using my images for profit.
   There's one nursery that's continually ignored any of my requests to
   remove some old images that still have Digimarc watermarks embedded
   in them.  The only real recourse that I have is to contact their ISP
   and have their Web site terminated under the DMCA.  Unfortunately,
   I abhor the DMCA and don't want to support it.  :)

   I've tried to obfuscate theft of my images by inserting a copyright 
   notice and chopping the photos up into smaller sub-parts that are
   visually the same online, but much harder to copy (since there are now
   twelve little images to steal instead of one big one), but folks are
   tenacious and have way too much time on their hands -- I still find
   images reassembled and cropped to remove the copyright notice.

   But the real question I have is how to deal with folks who have stolen
   these images.  Unless they're registered with the copyright office 
   beforehand, damages are much less.  And since I'm not making money on
   my images (I'm just an amateur), there really aren't any damages.

Chris

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