Six Ways to Keep your Digital Images from Becoming “Orphan Works”

[noisycheese]

Here is an interesting essay on how to combat image theft and exploitation by unethical social media websites:

Link: http://photometadata.blogspot.com/2...igital-images-from-becoming-orphan-works.html

Six Ways to Keep your Digital Images from Becoming “Orphan Works”

 

[Murchu]

Good resource, thanks for the headsup

 

[DNG]

Flickr Pro does not strip custom IPTC data, so adding Creator, Copyright, contact, even usage requirements can be added in editors (like AfterShot Pro) that allows you add as many needed fields as needed.

 

[Murchu]

I am beginning to think the way forward with all this, is photographers lobbying for legislation that forbids online giants (or anyone else), from stripping metadata. I think photographers need to unite towards this cause, as if the US & the EU were to introduce legislation making the stripping of metadata illegal, I think we would see a cosmic shift in the very contentious area of 'orphan' works, at least with regard to current work being regarded as orphaned simply because someone decided to strip a photographers copyright.

 

[pdexposures]

I am beginning to think the way forward with all this, is photographers lobbying for legislation that forbids online giants (or anyone else), from stripping metadata. I think photographers need to unite towards this cause, as if the US & the EU were to introduce legislation making the stripping of metadata illegal, I think we would see a cosmic shift in the very contentious area of 'orphan' works, at least with regard to current work being regarded as orphaned simply because someone decided to strip a photographers copyright.

Not gonna happen, you'll have a bunch of broke photographers saying "Hey listen to us!" vs a few powerful actual lobbyists with billions of dollars behind them.

The only way to prevent your work from becoming "orphaned"? Don't post it online.

 

[sig]

Stripping of meta data does not make the work 'orphan', at least not according to these guys...

http://www.ipo.gov.uk/types/hargreaves.htm
http://www.ipo.gov.uk/hargreaves-orphanmyth.pdf