Copyright Protection

• The word “Copyright” or the symbol “©” are all you legally need on an image (or collection)

  • That is, in theory…

• It is a fact of life that people steal pictures

  • They don’t often view it as theft
  • Digital transmittal has made protection hard and enforcement harder

• Varying degrees of marking images as owned

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Owned: large obnoxious logos in pictures, watermarks, GIF comments, etc.