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Raw & Post Processing, Printing => Printing: Printers, Papers and Inks => Topic started by: Jantórur Emil Joensen on February 02, 2014, 02:52:55 pm

Title: Selling and printing own pictures
Post by: Jantórur Emil Joensen on February 02, 2014, 02:52:55 pm

When i´m selling a picture that i have taken and i have printed out, do i do that with © or without the copyright(printed on) ?.
By my self i think it should be without, but since i dont know i´m asking here.

Title: Re: Selling and printing own pictures
Post by: bill t. on February 02, 2014, 03:17:14 pm

You do not need to have a copyright symbol on your image, copyrights are implicit in the US and in many other countries.  But there are good basic practices, such as registering your work with the appropriate government agency, associating a name with the piece and making sure your name and contact information is somewhere on the piece (or in the digital file) and relatively easy to find.  But even without that stuff you have a lot of protection, but if you want to go after somebody about infringement, it's a whole lot easier if your piece has been registered.

Here's how it works in the US.

http://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ01.pdf