If you’re not yet on SlickPic, the platform has just announced a new feature that’s one more reason to sign up for a Pro account. With its Electronic Copyright Office (eCO) Registration Helper, you’ll be able to streamline the process of officially registering your images to secure legal proof of
Guess what? If you’ve ever taken a photo, you’re a copyright owner! Yes, if you shoot a photo personally or professionally, you achieve an automatic copyright. If you’re like most creatives, you probably don’t enjoy the legal aspects of the business. However, knowledge of copyrights is something you should be
Copyright lawsuits are expensive federal court litigations. Now, the Copyright Claims Board — CCB — is an alternative for disputes up to $30,000. What is the CCB? Basically, the Copyright Claims Board is small claims court for intellectual property issues under $30,000. It is a much easier and cost-effective way
If you use Adobe Generative Fill to process one of your photos, do you own the copyright? If you add, remove or expand your image, is it still your image? What happens when you use Photoshop Generative Fill? You probably have heard of Generative Fill by now. Adobe has incorporated
I’m going to get this out of the way first: I don’t like watermarks. I use them, but I don’t like putting them on my photos. Oh sure, I can name all the reasons that many of us put watermarks on our photos. People can more easily find and quickly identify
What is metadata? Metadata is information about a photograph that is added after the pixels are captured. The first is the EXIF (Exhangeable Image File format) which adds the camera, manufacturer, focal length, GPS, exposure, and sometimes, depending on the camera, the owner’s name and copyright. EXIF metadata is added by the
A popular myth in academic cultures is fair use. The doctrine provides situations where copyrighted works can be used without paying. It places restrictions on: The purpose and character of the use, including whether such use is of a commercial nature or is for nonprofit educational purposes The nature of the
With the new year officially underway, now’s a great time to update your metadata for your images. Metadata can be exported to your image, so when someone opens a photo, they can see things like a copyright notice, date, camera/lens EXIF data and more. With Capture One, you have a
Updating our online and electronic information is crucial and something we should put in our calendars every year. Not only do we need to remember to update the copyright information in our cameras, but we also need to update our preset in Adobe Lightroom Classic (and whichever your software of
A little while back, a good friend of mine experienced a case where several of his architecture and cityscape shots had been placed on a stock photo website. The problem? He wasn’t the one who put them there. Using Pixsy, he was alerted to the copyright infringement, and issue a
One of the most anticipated releases I was looking forward to this year with Adobe MAX was the Content Authenticity Initiative tool that’s now available in Photoshop. I’ve long been a proponent of protecting photographers and their works, but also making sure that the images we see are in fact,
You all know the debate about watermarks. Should we use them? Do they really help protect our photographs? There are plusses and minuses — it might help to secure your photos (well, that is until Google debunked them), but it also takes away from the clean look of a sharp photograph.
