Re: Watermark on photo of a photo

[Elson Elizaga <elson@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

You are right. A watermark is translucent.

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/watermark

There is another issue. I just didn't mention this earlier so as not to complicate the discussion.

The original photos are faded and dirty. They were owned by a private collector, who gave it to the museum. The curator asked me to retouch the photos. I did so for free, as the curator and I are friends and we belong to a group called The Heritage Conservation Advocates. I know this isn't what other photographers would suggest -- not to ask for money in exchange for work -- but I did so anyway.

Now that some people have photographed the retouched, framed photos, and putting them in cdodev.com with Google Adsense -- thereby making the website commercial -- I feel I'm a victim of theft.

Do I have copyright on the retouched photos. I do not yet know a law regarding this matter in my country -- Philippines -- but in your country, who owns copyright of the retouched photos?

On 8/21/2014 1:59 AM, PhotoRoy6@xxxxxxx wrote:

1) this isn't what I think of as a watermark. To me a watermark is what one sees when you hold a US $50.00 note up and see Grant.

2) they are not putting a copyright symbols on the photo so they are not getting any copyright protection. They are just saying they are the source of this item. It really isn't even a derivative work as it is just a copy of an existing work.

3) the copyright holder can sue them for $ if they didn't receive permission to publish them from the copyright holder.

 

Roy

 

 

 

 

In a message dated 8/20/2014 12:33:31 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, elson@xxxxxxxxxxx writes:

Here is a webpage that shows photos in Museo de Oro in my place:

http://www.cdodev.com/2014/06/14/history-watch-more-old-photos-of-cagayan-de-oro/

The photos are owned by Museo de Oro. A man photographed them and put them in cdodev.com. The photos are also watermarked "CDOdev.com". When I wrote a complaint about this practice, one photographer explained that although the original photo is owned by Museo de Oro, the photos of these photos are made by CDOdev.com and deserves to be watermarked because these copies are owned by CDOdev.com.