It occured to me that many photographers don’t protect their photos. Ok you can’t prevent people from nicking you pics when they are on the web, but at least by putting a notice up you may deter a useful percentage. Rather than adding an ugly stamp across the front of your photos you can also use the photo’s metadata to add a copyright notice.
There are four important fields found in the IPTC section and one of these that I’m going to help you with the legal wording.
1 is Copyright Status…set this to Copyrighted
2 Copyright I put my name…. Peter Bargh
3 Rights Usage Terms… and here’s what I put:
This image is the property of Peter Bargh and protected under UK and International copyright laws. Copying, duplicating, saving as a digital file, printing, publishing in form of media including web, manipulating, transmitting or reproducing without the prior written permission of Peter Bargh is strictly forbidden and would constitute a breach of copyright.
Feel free to copy this and replace my name with yours.
4 Copyright info url…link this to your own site…ideally to a page about your photo copyright. Make sure you add a bit about photos being available, should a potential buyer by looking.
If you use a catalogue program, such as Adobe Lightroom, you can make this, and keywording a much more automated and quick task.
Hope that helps.
Cheers Peter good advice
A lot of people don’t know the the newer cameras such as cannon allow you to place your copyright information directly in your camera. Now when ever you take a picture the copyright information is automatically placed in the meta data of the picture.
Many thanks Peter – useful and thoughtful
Many thanks for the advice on the above, and have used the paragraph you show and replaced the name, thank you for allowing this,
best regards, Clive J Maclennan
thanks!!
Thanks Peter Im just updating all my IPTC core info in Bridge at the moment and your answer to fill the space for rights usage was spot on, cheers mate
Many thanks for this Peter. Although I dio copyright my work, I never really understood what to put in some of the boxes in my template in Adobe Bridge. Thanks for helping to clear it up.
Cheers guys, I’m pleased I have helped 🙂
Many thanks Peter. That helped a lot.
I use Corel for managing my images. I am very grateful for this information and for the opportunity to use it. I continue to marvel at how much I can still learn even after all these years. Thanks again.
Thank you Peter. I just used the company name, but will be using this from now on.
Cheers