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How can you keep people from copying pictures?

  • I am going to open my studio on the 4th. I was told to stamp the back of the photos so places won't copy them if people take them in. I don't understand how that would even work. Couldn't a person just scan the photo to their computer, save it on a disc or flashdrive and then have it printed? How would a stamp on the back do anything? Should I watermark all my pictures? Even the ones I give to the customer? I am confused to say the least.

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    You can't stop people from copying your pictures if you show them out in public in any form or media be in as a poster on your window or uploaded to the internet. You just have to satisfy yourself that you have the original electronic file stashed somewhere in your vault. Stamping at the back is good to remind customers where they had that picture taken so it's a form of advertising. I'm against watermarking copies for customers as I feel it's obstrusive enough for something they paid for anyway.

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Most office shops and photo stores won't touch a picture with clear copyright data on it. They can be sued big-time for illegally reproducing a registered work, and they know it. But if there's no "signature" on it, they have no way of knowing it's not customer-owned. While there's no way to prevent a customer from, say, taking a picture of your print and getting a print of that, remember that the photo you gave them is a second-generation image, and theirs will be a third- or fourth-generation image, and some image quality always gets lost from one generation to the next. A lot of wedding and graduation photographers don't allow customers to take proofs home anymore because of the copying problem. If you do allow them to take "review" pictures home to look at, THOSE I would watermark. Any photo the customer hasn't specifically paid for.

Wendy G

people are going to do what people do... if they want to scan, then that'll happen... you could make prints with your copyright in the corner... small but there... but when you go over the top, you might lose clients... create photobooks, if you are doing weddings, etc... and any CD's should be LO-RES photos with watermarks...

Forlorn Hope

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