hi robson, ta for your input....things a bit different over here i believe, however i've successfully prosecuted before.....and this brings me to mesquites comment....i've though about it before but you know what, i dont mind people using my pictures to a degree....not at all, happy to....they are just stock pics anyway so if people want to use them for illustration purposes, editorial, forums etc i dont mind at all.
what i do mind is people earning off my back and from my work....people with a certain attitude that i have utter contempt for.
i've some 15,000 of my pictures, taken back when i was into photography, placed with image banks and they are copyrighted/watermarked.....thats different....but just the stock stuff i take in my back garden is open to anyone to use so long as theyre not ******************************** ***** ******** *** *****************!
you know, gets to a point where you just wish you could ''watermark everything''.....maybe i should indeed start doing my pics....this stuff really gets me down dude. feels like theres people kicking your head in even whilst you sleep.
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You know Sonni, you'll save yourself a lot of bother if you actually put a clear watermark on your pictures rather than relying on some little bits of twigs and a branch. Anyone who is going to rip off pictures won't be put off by something like that because it's meaningless to anyone but yourself and in fact makes the picture more desirable to them because it's a well composed picture, just the sort they want to use.
Whereas your logo emblazoned predominantly on the picture will either stop them cold and move onto another picture that they can use or cause them to have to crop so much as to make it too much hassle for the effort.
