copyright photos

[butterflyangel]

I am new here and I am in love. I have seen pictures with the copyright and name on the bottom. I am wondering what programs are being used. I did a shoot of a football tournement and there were some professional players playing and would like to keep the rights to those.

[Izzy]

Originally Posted by butterflyangel

I am new here and I am in love. I have seen pictures with the copyright and name on the bottom. I am wondering what programs are being used. I did a shoot of a football tournement and there were some professional players playing and would like to keep the rights to those.

For mine I use photoshop and use layers to do it. You can also use Lightroom to automatically resize and water mark them for web use.

[ChrisAdval]

Originally Posted by butterflyangel

I am new here and I am in love. I have seen pictures with the copyright and name on the bottom. I am wondering what programs are being used. I did a shoot of a football tournement and there were some professional players playing and would like to keep the rights to those.

I used to use layers on photoshop, but when I learned to design my own logo on InDesign I use that and just apply it to the photos via Photoshop.

As for copyrights situation you may be having with those players depends on what kind of copyrights they want commercial usage or personal usage. And they can force you for copyrights because they're public figure if they're professional players, any public figure for that matter, no release required for any copyright usage on your end, unless your cashing in (commercial usage) on their likeness but in most cases photos on public figures are used only for press so generally no releases are required. But specially selling their likenesses outside of press is a totally different ballpark. A lot of research has to be done on copyright laws, but myself I don't give away copyrights for nothing, at most I'll trade with a person by giving them the copyright commercial usage rights and as well use the photos myself for my commercial purposes so both parties can gain revenue from the photos.

[Tito87]

Originally Posted by butterflyangel

I am new here and I am in love. I have seen pictures with the copyright and name on the bottom. I am wondering what programs are being used. I did a shoot of a football tournement and there were some professional players playing and would like to keep the rights to those.

Welcome to DPS. Hope this helps.Photoshop Watermark, Photoshop Copyright, Add A Copyright Watermark In Photoshop

[mokka]

Well I use lightroom, but you can also use photoshop. All you need is a .png file (though any file-type can be used) with the information you want to add to the photo. In Lightroom you can set this up as a watermark and apply it to any photos you are exporting, in Photoshop or GIMP or whatever you use you can import it as a new layer (and make it transparent).

As for copyrights, it depends on what country you live in... in the UK where I am you don't need to register anything you create as copyrighted to you, it is automatically yours the moment you click the shutter regardless of who or what is in it (of course identifiable people in the photo could refuse to sign a model release preventing you from using the photos commercially, but they can't force you to give them copyright). I think in the US there is some kind of central copyright office where you have to register items for them to be copyrighted, and other countries, I don't know, everywhere has different laws.

[RELum]

Your photos are your photos the moment you take them. If you are in the US as well you don't technically have to apply for a copyright. However, should something come up legally where say someone is using one of your photos and you need to prove it, it can be extremely difficult to prove without a REGISTERED copyright. if you want to register your photos, follow this link to the copyright office: U.S. Copyright Office - Registration of Published Photographs. It costs about $35 (around that, need to double check for yourself), but you can register in bulk for that fee, can't remember if there is a limit on the number of photos per fee or not. I don't think there is though.

Russell

[AndyM2020]

Your images are automatically Copyrighted to you. As has been mentioned you don't need to register copyright in the UK and other countries, but in the US it's easier to make a claim if you do, and you get extra benefits (well, more like you get less if you don't register). It may be a hassle, but it seems to be worth the extra if you have any photos that are worth registering.

Also when asserting a copyright with a copyright notice, use the Word "Copyright" and/or the copyright symbol © (C in a circle) and not a C in brackets "(C)" as it's not legally recognised.

It's also worth adding your details to the IPTC meta data, things like your contact details and also a copyright notice there as well.

I use BreezeBrowser when adding things like logos or text to images for things like copyrights - it seems easier to use for batch processing. BB will also do batch processing of IPTC data.