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1. Re: Copyright metadata and printing
web-weaver Jul 1, 2013 6:36 PM (in response to CramohcE)If everybody acts professionally, yes.
If they want to cheat, no.
The only thing that helps is a watermark, and you have to place it so on the image that cropping it away makes the image worthless.
You have to evaluate your customers: With professional art directors you can expect that they honor your copyright.
But if you send images to other customers - for instance if you do weddings or events - better use a watermark.
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2. Re: Copyright metadata and printing
CramohcE Jul 1, 2013 6:45 PM (in response to web-weaver)Thank you, this does help my situation. It is for a wedding couple who have purchased the right to print the files themselves. I just wanted to add my metadata so if they post their images online I can get the SEO benifits, but I did not want to risk them going to the print lab and being told they can't print them. I still have the copyright to the images but they have a unrestricted personal use licence.
Thanks again for your answer
web-weaver wrote:
If everybody acts professionally, yes.
If they want to cheat, no.
The only thing that helps is a watermark, and you have to place it so on the image that cropping it away makes the image worthless.
You have to evaluate your customers: With professional art directors you can expect that they honor your copyright.
But if you send images to other customers - for instance if you do weddings or events - better use a watermark.
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3. Re: Copyright metadata and printing
Dave Merchant Jul 2, 2013 1:50 AM (in response to CramohcE)Some points to remember in that regard:
- Many times when a photo is posted to a website (social media, etc.) all the EXIF tags are stripped by the software that resizes/compresses the upload.
- Normal web searches don't include EXIF tags, so having your name in the copyright tag won't make it appear on Google.
- If you need to track where images are being used (e.g. to prevent a copy being exploited for commercial purposes) you will need to invest in a digital watermarking service - they use steganography to invisibly-embed your identity into the pixels of the image, and crawl the Web looking for matches on your behalf. Even if the image is recompressed by a website, the watermark usually survives.
CramohcE wrote:
I just wanted to add my metadata so if they post their images online I can get the SEO benifits,


