[Leica] Tina Wrote...

[images at comporium.net (Tina Manley)]

At 12:53 PM 6/30/2009, you wrote:
>The best protection is to limit image size and dpi such that getting
>decent-size prints is pretty much impossible. But otherwise we may have
>reached the point where we have to recognize that if we put it up in
>cyberspace, it's going to float around cyberspace.
>
>B. D.
>www.bdcolenphoto.com

I agree, but more and more of my stock sales are for web use, or at 
least with web use included for an extra fee.  If the photos can just 
be grabbed off the web, nobody is going to be paying for them.  Most 
of the big stock agencies put a very prominent watermark across the 
whole photo.  I'm sure it can be removed but it would be a lot of 
trouble.  The stock business is really suffering these days, and more 
and more stock photographers are selling from their own sites on 
PhotoShelter or SmugMug.  There's got to be some way to protect web 
use.  Many textbook publishers are moving entirely to the web as 
school districts cut back on buying textbooks.  I'm not really 
worried about somebody making prints because they won't get a good 
one from a web file.  Tineye can find web use but they have a long, 
long way to go before they cover the whole web.

Tina

Tina Manley
www.tinamanley.com