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From: "Walt"Subject: Re: Interesting Twitter Photo Copyright Issues
On 1/17/2013 3:24 AM, Steve Cottrell wrote:
On 16/1/13, Mark Roberts, discombobulated, unleashed:
I'm fine with Twitter, Posterous, Facebook, etc. for having fun and
sharing snapshots. But if you take a genuinely newsworthy photograph
and put it on one of these sites before registering your copyright...
You. Are. Stupid.
Agreed.
Which raises the question: What /do/ you do when you find yourself having
taken a newsworthy photo? Given the pace of news media, the instant
dissemination of images, and the speed with with stories come and go, how
do you go about actually getting fair market value out of an image before
the market dries up when the next big story comes along? As I understand
it, the process of registering a copyright for an image tends to take a
lot longer than a typical news cycle, and is pretty burdensome for someone
like myself, who doesn't have enough experience in that area to even know
where to begin.
You don't actually have to register copyright to own copyright, though for
some reason, courts in the USA inexplicably seem to demand that copyright be
registered before they will look seriously at ownership. Probably, if you
are going to post a newsworthy photo, you should be looking at it as a
public service rather than as a money grab.
We all know what we think of ambulance chasers, after all.
William Robb
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