On Friday, November 29, 2002, at 12:07 pm, Ron Jones wrote:
Probably a dumb question with a very obvious answer but here goes. In theAn easy place to begin is to go to the File>File Info in Photoshop and check the 'Mark as Copyright' box. This will make a copyright symbol (�) appear before the filename in the title bar. You can also add your contact details and other information. This info is stored as metadata in the file and can be read by any metadata-aware program, such as Photoshop.
'olden days' it was relatively easy to prove that you owned the copyright of
an image. You could simply produce the original transparency or negative.
Even when you supplied a scan of that trannie or neg and it had been passed
on to all and sundry with or without your permission, you still had the
original piece of film to prove ownership if ever a dispute came to law.
My question is - how can you do that with a digicam image when, presumably,
every copy that you or anybody else makes is an exact clone of the original?
I am obviously assuming that you haven't embedded a watermark, invisible or
otherwise, in the image.
On the downside, this metadata is not robust and could easily be removed. Although one could argue that doing so is to commit an offence. In most cases, adding the metadata is offering a service to those in the industry who want and need to know who created an image. For more more robust solutions, consider invisible watermarking software.
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