Watermark - do you put a " © " in it?

As others have said it's nothing more than a friendly reminder that it's copyrighted.

I use it, because it means that the work is protected by copyright. Granted, it would be protected anyway, but when I put the notice on there, I can prove the image is mine more easily, and they have a harder time professing innocence.

Before 1978, the copyright notice was required to be able to enforce the copyright in the U.S. In those days, the notice had to identify the copyright, the date, the place of publication, and the owner. Also, an additional notice was usually required establishing which of the copyrights was being reserved (usually all of them, as in "All Rights Reserved.")

Now, copyright law reads that any tangible manifestation of original work is protected the moment it becomes tangible (i.e., written down or put in a displayable form). But if the notice is on there, an infringer has more burden of proof. If you also register the image with the copyright office (which most do not), then even more burden of proof is placed on the infringer.

Rick "who puts the mark on there primarily for force an infringer to clean it off--which will leave traces when compared to my RAW file" Denney

i know this is an old topic but about the copyright thing, can you put the symbol on your watermark even if you havent "copyrighted" your photos?

nanette37 wrote in post #9943687
i know this is an old topic but about the copyright thing, can you put the symbol on your watermark even if you havent "copyrighted" your photos?

Read the third paragraph in the post above yours. Once you create it, it's copyrighted. Or did you mean "registering" your copyright?

I pretty much just use my domain name for the water mark, no copyright symbol.

I found out that technically the copyright symbol is just that, a symbol that you're work is copyrighted but does not have any value beyond that. So in order to get it officially copyrighted, you need to have each image registered, which I think was expensive at the time. I think the best practice is not publishing high resolution photos on the Internet.

anyone figured out how the 'c in the circle' when connecting the 5d to the canon and putting in the copyright info into the meta data info? It seems there is no symbols key

I use it in my watermark, just because I can.

ALT+0169

not on a MAC

promocop wrote in post #9944368
not on a MAC

I see, then it is Option+g

nada...maybe the new Mac office 2008 is preventing it?