Consider water marking your photos with your website or company name and copyright year. I was always told that in the world of flies you can copyright a fly by name but not really patent one. All it would take is someone to change one material or change the quantity or size in a material used. Tie it in another sequence, color, etc and the patent is useless. But your picture is your picture and the laws are a little more straight forward in regards to pictures. Watermark them so that if someone does link to your server as they have done in the past or outright download the images and then upload them somewhere else that there is at least a visual clue to the reader what is really going on. You are due fair credit for creation of those flies and there should be some ethics on the part of the forum in question in giving and ensuring due credit is given. Now if someone ties and photographs say an old but publicly known fly then the credit to the pattern should go to the originator and the credit for the photo (and tyer) should go to that individual. Please note that if you post pictures to social media (including said forum) that generally in the fine print you can find some legalese that claims ownership of everything you post including pictures. Some media companies scour social networks for original artwork to use in magazines, websites, etc. So be careful what you post online because unless you own the server there is a good chance that you don't own what you post there. And if set to publicly available, if may even be interpreted as public domain. I can tell you without a doubt that Facebook, twitter, etc all claim ownership over what you upload whether you delete it or not (they don't really delete anything, just hide it). I think we may find some humor and plenty of fodder for people seeking public office, especially 20 - 30 years from now when many people don't take what they post online very seriously. This is still the early days of social media. I will say that Facebook does provide provisions on how to handle theft of copyrighted material including words and photos, but you must prove that you are the rightful owner. Nobody but you can file a claim. YouTube has the same mechanisms and probably a few others.
I once used the Chilipepper and a picture from Tony's vise of one he tied in a newsletter but I attributed both the pattern and photo to him. I think it is important to society to give credit where it is due. Scott On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 12:37 AM Neville Gosling <nev.gosl...@shaw.ca> wrote: > Nick: > > There is strength in numbers and if it is indeed the flytyingforum.com > we could ask the VFB members individually to e-mail the administrator and > tell him as Wes suggests to “Cease & Desist” displaying your photograph > without your permission. I now place a copyright symbol on my photos > together with my name. They can still crop it out or photoshop it, but each > photo normally has metadata attached to it which should include the > original creation date and camera used. > > Neville (Nev) Gosling > > > On Jul 27, 2015, at 7:42 PM, Niclas (Gmail) <n.runars...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Doesn't really matter now. I got banned for thinking that I still owned > the riights to my photo... :( > > > On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 4:31 AM, Neville Gosling <nev.gosl...@shaw.ca> > wrote: > >> Hi Nick: >> >> I’m guessing that you are referring to the flytyingforum.com that also >> has a fly pattern database that patterns may be uploaded to? >> >> >> >> Neville (Nev) Gosling >> Greater Vancouver >> BC Canada >> >> >> >> >> On Jul 27, 2015, at 6:42 PM, Niclas (Gmail) <n.runars...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >> So, guys - here's one for you... >> >> Background: >> I'm getting tired of people posting my flies and stating that they are >> their own. The more flies with different owners showing up in picture >> searchs makes the ownership of the material on my own website unclear. >> I know what copyright is about and until today I thought it was the same >> "over there" but on a certain discussion forum where you also can upload >> patterns to a pattern database I ran into a brick wall. The discussion with >> the administrator has been ridiculous But as an administrator I'd like to >> assume that he should have some knowledge about rules and laws... and since >> he's not bending one inch (and getting more and more rude), it's not that I >> start to wonder if I'm wrong myself. >> >> Someone else has used a photo (taken by myself) from my site and used it >> for uploading a pattern in the forum's pattern database. First he thought I >> meant that it was my pattern and he wanted to see a patent ID. I explained >> that the pattern was beside the point and that it was the picture that was >> the issue. I think I got that through. But he's still wants to see a patent >> ID to remove it "or stop wasting his time because I'm bringing up shit that >> noone but I even care about". >> >> Question: >> Is copyright different in US. 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