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Originally Posted by Exile on Spencer St
Hope you've copyrighted that first photo, Gremlin, as the media will be all over it.
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A bit off-topic for this thread, I know, but there's no need to copyright photos. It is granted automatically for any created media - in the case of photos simply pressing the shutter release confers copyright, which is why
this caused such a fuss at the time.
The media will make a token effort to find the owner of a photo before using it. It's cheaper, on average, to steal images then pay royalties (or, more usually, a settlement) if the copyright holder shows up and makes a fuss than to make concerted efforts to find each owner and ask permission.
Sticking a copyright symbol © at the corner is no protection, they just crop it off. Having a semi-opaque symbol over the top of the whole image is the only protection, but it ruins the effect...