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<blockquote data-quote="480sparky" data-source="post: 248095" data-attributes="member: 15805">You can insert Copyright information on many Nikon bodies, but that has nothing to do with the legal aspects of US Copyright Law.&nbsp; The only thing it may affect is it can strengthen an infringement case should it go to trial.A copy of your Copyright policy should be included in all your paperwork each client receives.&nbsp; This should spell out specifically what the client is allowed and not allowed to do with your images.&nbsp; For instance, let's say you want to provide your clients with a CD containing all the keepers from a shoot.&nbsp; You want them to be able to take the images to any place and print them, so that should be stated.&nbsp; If you want to allow them to, say, rotate, crop etc., that should be stated as well.&nbsp; You will also allow them to post them on their Facebook page, etc. as well.But you may want to specify they can't do to, or with, the images.&nbsp; The last thing you want is a lovely girl's senior portraits to be smashingly fantastic, only to have her boyfriend edit them in a drug-induced frenzy of applying so many ugly presets that people think YOU'RE on drugs. Nor do you want your image to be plastered on a billboard about teen birth control.And having NG-quality images is NOT a requirement to apply for a proper USCO registration of the images.&nbsp; They do not judge your images as that's not their job.&nbsp; It's done merely to protect your work as the creator of it.&nbsp; A classic example is the Alberto Diaz Gutiérrez's image of Argentine revolutionist Che Geuvara.&nbsp; Don't recognize the name?&nbsp; Just Google it and you'll find the most infringed image in history.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="480sparky, post: 248095, member: 15805"] You can insert Copyright information on many Nikon bodies, but that has nothing to do with the legal aspects of US Copyright Law. The only thing it may affect is it can strengthen an infringement case should it go to trial. A copy of your Copyright policy should be included in all your paperwork each client receives. This should spell out specifically what the client is allowed and not allowed to do with your images. For instance, let's say you want to provide your clients with a CD containing all the keepers from a shoot. You want them to be able to take the images to any place and print them, so that should be stated. If you want to allow them to, say, rotate, crop etc., that should be stated as well. You will also allow them to post them on their Facebook page, etc. as well. But you may want to specify they [B]can't[/B] do to, or with, the images. The last thing you want is a lovely girl's senior portraits to be smashingly fantastic, only to have her boyfriend edit them in a drug-induced frenzy of applying so many ugly presets that people think YOU'RE on drugs. Nor do you want your image to be plastered on a billboard about teen birth control. And having NG-quality images is NOT a requirement to apply for a proper USCO registration of the images. They do not judge your images as that's not their job. It's done merely to protect your work as the creator of it. A classic example is the Alberto Diaz Gutiérrez's image of Argentine revolutionist Che Geuvara. Don't recognize the name? Just Google it and you'll find the most infringed image in history. [/QUOTE]

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