is there a quick/easy way to add a copyright/name to a batch

[Milner]

Just read the article on how to add a watermark. But, what I need to do is add a copyright and my name to the lower right corner of every JPG in a file quickly and easily....I need to do this in the field so I can hand over a CD at the end of the days shoot.
Sorry if this is a newby question, I an new to the Digi-world.
Thanks
Marc

[tommykjensen]

There are several ways to do this. It all depends on which software You have available.

What do You use for post processing?

[CyberDyneSystems]

Check the Tutorials sticky at the top of the page... :)

[JZaun]

One of the posters here (Oviv) wrote a batch program to do this. It works great.... thanks again Oviv, every time I use it I say thanks Oviv :D
See this post

http://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthread.php?t=28678&highlight=oviv

JZ

[Hellashot]

Just because you put a copyright symbol on any piece of artistic work doesn't make it a valid copyright. Every copyrighted document/work must be on file with the U.S. Copyright office in order to be valid.

[Hogleg 44]

Sorry guy's, but Another Dumb question, but how do you type the 'copyright' "symbol" into a program like Oviv's?

Thanks,

[JZaun]

Sorry guy's, but Another Dumb question, but how do you type the 'copyright' "symbol" into a program like Oviv's?

Thanks,


(Alt) key and 0169 numric

JZ

[Hogleg 44]

Alt) key and 0169 numric


Viola!!!

Thanks JZ,

[dhbailey]

Regarding the validity of copyright protection, under the 1978 revision of the U.S. copyright law, copyright is give to every creative work as soon as it is put in fixed format (e.g. picture saved onto a disk). It is not necessary to record that copyright with the U.S. Copyright office in order for it to be protected, nor is it necessary to place a copyright notice on the work. Under the OLD law, if something did not have a specific copyright notice, it was assumed to be in the public domain, but they changed that so that a work has to either have a copyright prior to 1923 or has to carry a specific notice placing it in the public domain for it to be so.

However, if you don't pay the fee and register your copyright with the copyright office (this is in the U.S. only, I have no idea how other countries' copyright laws work) the damages you can sue to recoup are limited to actual, provable losses. Registering it opens you up to being able to sue for a lot more money.

But it is expensive these days, so waiting until you have a large number of pictures to register as a collection might be a good economic compromise.