Re: check image watermark to stay legal? AND Client vs. Artist Copyright Question

Hi

digimark is certainly not the only watermarking system out there.
It maybe redundant (and I am not sure of the legalize) but I even put an
"additional" original design mark (which of course is copyrighted) on all my
graphics as well as save the developmental files.

With software products that have the ability to zoom in at images a 1000's
of times its easy to incorporate a "original brand" (just like on cattle)
or "mircro-dot copyrighted image" deep inside the graphic that is
strategically
placed. (not sure nano-small is a word ;) )

Copyright, yes very, very important.

Nel, U may want to check out
Graphic Artist Guild
http://www.gag.org/
they deal with these issues of
rights and have a lot of useful info. on the site.
U have to remember that not only is there a Virtual
World (Net) ;) but there is a land based world - print, TV, radio, etc.
that all use graphics, text, etc.  What about the your
rights with distribution of your images on these media?

Don't sign your rights away just like that.
http://www.gag.org/

----- Original Message -----
From: Rosanne Serrao <rserrao(at)mailbox.ucdavis.edu>
To: <hwg-graphics(at)mail.hwg.org>
Sent: Saturday, October 23, 1999 3:24 PM
Subject: check image watermark to stay legal?


> morning -
>
> I need to redesign a site for a restaurant.  Some of the graphics I am
> not sure if we can use.  I checked the image under photoshop 5.0

--------CUT-----
I just completed a sight for a client that included many
original graphics I created.  I attributed the copyrights
of the site to the client.  Is that not a usual practice?
Should I be retaining copyrights for graphics I create
for clients?  What is the usual practice?


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