Posts Categorized Copyright

An Update to a Savvy Approach to Copyright Messaging

In Copyright, Geek, Internet, Photography on 23 January 2008 with 13 comments

In my original post, I suggested adding a copyright message to a photo and use CSS to crop its view. This accomplishes the goal of adding robust copyright information without defacing your own work. I got a lot of responses to this idea, and wanted to update the post with a few responses to the […]

A Savvy Approach to Copyright Messaging

In Copyright, Geek, Internet, Photography on 12 January 2008 with 32 comments

I’m a photographer. I’m also a web geek. And those two sides of my brain sometimes fight with each other.
As a photographer, I’m outraged when people grab photos off the web and use them without consideration of copyright. I’ve been fighting this “It’s on the internet, so it must be free!” ignorance for more […]