Our new Kelby Training video is out! “Copyright Essentials for Today’s Photographer”
Check out the intro video here, with Mia McCormick.
We go over copyright issues, social media issues, and all sorts of thinks you need to know business stuff. All in the same easy manner we usually teach. We had a live audience for this and did Q&A with them, which was way cool. First time Kelby Training invited an audience in for a taping.
If you are subscribed to Kelby Training, watch, enjoy, and learn.
#1 by Harvey Morgan, II on June 27, 2013 - 8:37 pm
Dear Mr. Greenberg and Mr. Reznicki,
I own your survival guide and have been reading your articles in Photoshop User for years. I do have an issue maybe you could clear up.
If I were to post images to a social network site that I had just taken do I send a link to that post as “the best published edition” for copyright registration?
Right now I don’t participate on social network sites (kind of gives away my age) and I wait to release images after I have done the registration which makes me a very untimely image guy.
By the way, the part in your Survival Manual about uploading more than one folder at registration saved me almost the price of the book first time out.
Is this covered in your video?
Thanks, Harvey
#2 by Jack and Ed on June 27, 2013 - 9:03 pm
Hi Harvey,
Glad you liked the book and found it useful. Yes, best edition in your case would be the image posted on a site, but you need to send in a JPEG (preferred), or a print, or anything physical for the “deposit” to the Copyright office. Not a link and it doesn’t have to be the page, just the photo. Best edition is usually a book or a magazine. With photos, the photo itself does it. Hope that clarifies.
Jack
#3 by Harvey Morgan, II on June 27, 2013 - 9:17 pm
Thank you very much. I always wondered how the flickerfacebook people handled things.
#4 by Jack and Ed on June 27, 2013 - 9:30 pm
Basically, most people post and don’t register. As most people don’t register any of their photos. Until they get ripped off.
#5 by Ken Brown on July 13, 2013 - 5:45 am
The copyright training video from Kelby Training was packed with information. I can tell from the editing that both of you could have gone on for hours with all sorts of scary campfire stories.
I have a couple of questions that I hope you can answer that weren’t covered in the video. I work as a real estate photographer and my clients require that I deliver pictures within 24 hours. This mostly has to do with the contractual requirements they are bound by with the Multiple Listing Service(s). If I were to register my photos daily, I couldn’t be profitable. Some days I might only bring in one mini-shoot for $85. It seems I am going to have to register “published” photos. What is the longest delay in registering you would recommend? Do you have any advice or tips about the “published” process? Your demonstration of he “unpublished” process was great.
Thank you and I look forward to more of your training videos in the future.
Ken
#6 by Jo-Anne Hildebrand on July 26, 2013 - 1:54 am
Hi Ed and & Jack,
My husband Ross has images which are ready for publishing online except for our last checks of correct watermarking and copyrighting.
We are in Perth, Western Australia and we understand that everything we do will fall initially under our Australian jurisdiction but we have learned so much more of the correct processes of protecting Ross’ images through your latest and past videos at kelbytraining.com and we thank you both and the wonderful Kelby Tutorial Videos for that.
We have read all we can find on the Australian process of automatic and free copyright and on the Berne, UCC,TRIPS & WTC International Agreements and the main questions we keep coming up with and we would like to ask your opinions of are:
1. What is the incidence and risk of serious copyright breach in the countries that are not part of any of the agreements and is there any steps one can take with regard to that risk?
2. Is it, considering the registered copyright system you have in the US, advisable or even possible that other nations who have IP, in our case images, also register in the US through your online process, receive the same advantages you outline so succinctly in your videos. We do understand that should we be able to register in the US that we would be deemed to act through your law system which we would be willing to do to have the much higher level of jurisdiction over our rights in the case of an infringement that occurred inside the USA?
3. With regard to social media claims to our IP in their terms of use policies, would you please confirm for us in your opinions: if the IP content that a link placed on any media site leads to is regarded by US and if possible your opinion on International Copyright law to be the same as an image or any type of IP embedded directly onto the site through their own software i.e. our own URL link placed into the bio or directly into a tweet as opposed to the photo & video camera link on Twitter being used to directly imbed an image or video?
Thanks once again for your valuable (even for an international user) information,
Regards,
Jo -Anne Hildebrand