but if the photo was done digitally, how can you ask the photographer to prove that he was the owner of the image?? Just truth in his word??
Well, now that the megapixel problem is nearly completely resolved, that's the essential problem with digital. Sorta means, if you're in the US, that you've got to register, and you've got to be careful about how to get the package to DC, since they're irradiating the mail there and it kills digital storage devices and scorches paper. Right this very moment the Copyright Office, prodded by a number of professional creators' groups, is working out an online registration procedure by which, it is hoped, one will be able to transmit digital files with the registration form by ftp to the copyright office.
There's an awful lot of info on the editorialphotographers.com site, and their internet discussion group has all this stuff in the archives. It's a yahoo group but closed, one must be accepted into it.
Check the web pages and join if you wish to search the forum archives. Otherwise there's lots of publically available info on the site.
Other places to get similar info are ASMP and PPA, also APA. They all have web sites.
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