Photo Copyright:
Copyright of photos is an automatic right, as soon as that photo has been created.
In the UK, there is no official agency to submit photos. While copyright is an
automatic right it is not so easy to prove should you be the subject of copyright theft.
All photographers should place a watermark of some kind and a copyright notice
(" © Copyright 2006. Photographers name/company All Rights Reserved.") on all
their photos before they are released to the public domain. This offers some protection.
Should photos be discovered and used without the photographers consent, it can become a problem
in proving you took the photograph and that the copyright belongs to you. The image could be
stored on a hard drive with the date and time it was loaded, but dates and times can be changed
on home or office computers and is not always 100% proof.
By submitting your photos to Protect My Work, your photos will be registered and held in our
database, along with the time and date they were received. It is possible to submit any digital
file, such as JPG´s, either by email or by logging into your account and uploading it.
For extra proof of the originality of the photographs, you are able to upload different versions
of the work, demonstrating the different stages the photos went through before reaching their final
state. This can be invaluable evidence should you need it.
Protect My Work allows it’s members to upload up to 8MB in one go, either by email or upload from the
website. Members may upload up to five separate files in one go as long as the combined total of all
five files is less than 8MB.
Members have the option to simply attach up to 5 attachments (totalling less that 8MB) to an email
and send it to protect@protectmywork.com. This is without doubt the easiest, fastest and simplest way to register
your work. After sending the email, you will receive one email in reply asking you confirm. Once confirmed,
you will receive a final email with details of the recently registered work, a unique username and password.
This unique username and password can be given to anyone that you may need to prove the work is registered.
The username and password can be entered in the "Search Protected Work" page and the work will be displayed
for download.
This protection in itself is an effective deterrent of anyone using your photos without permission.
