Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/03/12

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Subject: Re: [Leica] WE WUZ ROBBED!-Copyright law
From: "Steve LeHuray" <icommag@toad.net>
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 16:19:52 -0500

> Rob -
> 
> This is not true!  Almost all of my stock photographs are sold for
> editorial use.  They all carry my copyright notice.

<<snip>>
>
> If Marc included a copyright notice on his photographs, the reproduction of
> them for any purpose without the copyright notice is an infringement of the
> copyright law.
>
> Legally,
>
> Tina
>

Tina,

I could be wrong, but I believe that is true providing you have actually
registered your work with the Copyright office. Just saying it is
copyrighted does not make it so.

Steve
Annapolis